Skinner's Rules by Quintin Jardine
As head of Edinburgh's CID, Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Skinner has seen it all.but even he is shocked by the savagely mutilated corpse discovered in a dark alleyway. The victim is identified as a successful young lawyer, and the motive for the brutal death remains a mystery. Then further seemingly random killings in the city begin to suggest a vicious serial killer is on the rampage. But when the lawyer's fiancee is also murdered, Skinner realises that someone is in deadly earnest. What eventually emerges is an elaborate smokescreen shrouding a deep-rooted and intricate conspiracy. Now, whatever the danger to himslef, Skinner is determined that in Edinburgh, at least, folk will abide by his rules.Quintin Jardine was born in the West, in Scotland rather than America, but grew up to be a huge Sergio Leone fan. He was forced to attend school in Glasgow against his will, where he abandoned a meager try at law in favor of more exciting vocations in media, government propaganda, and political spin-doctoring. He moved into the even riskier field of media relations consultancy after a close call with the Brighton Bomb in 1984, before realising that he had been trained to become a crime writer all along. He never looks back now, forty novels later. He has built/acquired an extended family in Scotland and Spain along the road.
He does everything for them. His blog, http://quintinjardine.me, can be used to track him down.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780312110666 |
| ISBN 10 | 0312110669 |
| Title | Skinner's Rules |
| Author | Quintin Jardine |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
| Year published | 1994-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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