Quintin Jardine

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On Honeymoon with Death

First British Edition Headline (2001)

On Honeymoon with Death
Returning to L’Escala,, the idyllic Spanish village where they were once so happy, Oz Blackstone and Primavera Phillips are looking to forget the traumas of the past and rekindle the sense of passionate adventure L’Escala used to represent.
But old ghosts are not so easy to placate, and the shade of Oz’s childhood sweetheart Jan, now tragically dead, is threatening to turn their relationship into a seething cauldron of bitterness and recrimination.
Until a body turns up face down in the swimming pool of their new villa, and suddenly Oz and Prim are forced to turn their attention outwards and investigate the nest of very dangerous vipers beneath L’Escala’s sunny exterior.
Praise for Quintin Jardine
'A worthy addition to Jardine's DCC Skinner novels' The Times
'Remarkably assured ... a tour de force' New York Times
'Robustly entertaining' Irish Times
'Engrossing, believable characters ... captures Edinburgh beautifully' Edinburgh Evening News
'The Skinner series grows in authority and should be a natural for television' Time Out
'A first-class read' Jeffrey Archer
'Compelling' Oxford Times
'A hair-trigger thriller' Peterborough Evening Telegraph
'More twists and turns than TV's Taggart at its best' Stirling Observer
'Deplorably readable' Guardian
'Excellent thriller' Manchester Evening News

First British Edition Headline (2000)

Thursday Legends
Sometimes murder can be a game of two halves .…
Every Thursday for twenty-five years the group of friends - several of them policemen - had met up for a fiercely contested game of football. Which is why the discovery of Alec Smith's mutilated corpse, hit Bob Skinner so hard. A retired policeman, Smith had been a keen member of the Thursday Legends. Now Skinner must trawl through the cases he'd worked on, trying to find a clue as to who might have had a motive for such savagery.
But when a second member of the Legends is killed in equally shocking circumstances, Skinner realizes that he's been looking for answers in the wrong place. The truth is much closer to home, and the murderer may not be finished ....

First British Edition Headline (2000)

Paperback - Headline (2000)

Screen Savers
See Review by Bernard Knight - Author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series set in Medieval Devon
For Oz Blackstone the days of getting into trouble for a living, otherwise known as being a Private Enquiry Agent, could soon be behind him. An undercover stint posing as a TV wrestling master of ceremonies to catch a killer has convinced him that he might just have a bit of hidden theatrical talent - and once you've had a taste of the spotlight, it's tough going back to being just another member of the audience.
So when Oz gets the chance of a bit part in a movie, it seems like an offer he can't refuse even though his own life is fast developing a dramatic storyline of its own, with a frightening series of accidents befalling people close to him.
And when the female lead is kidnapped from the set in a bizarre echo of the movie's rollercoaster plot, fiction and reality come together in a terrifying climax. But has Oz got what it takes to save the day?

Paperback - Headline (2000)

Gallery Whispers
With his boss recovering from a heart attack, Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner is filling his shoes - and that means more time than he'd like sitting behind a desk. But he's about to be provided with more drama than he could ever want. One of the world's most ruthless terrorists is on his way to Edinburgh - and he can only have one thing on his mind: the forthcoming conference of world Heads of Government. If Skinner doesn't pick up his trail fast, he could have a global disaster in his backyard.
While all eyes are focused on the terrorist threat, a terminally ill woman is found dead - an apparent suicide. But a policewoman sees the subtle marks of an assisted death and therefore, according to the law, murder. It is the beginning of an ominous pattern.
For Skinner, the desperate race to find a heartless terrorist mixes uneasily with the search for a mercy killer - a search which takes on a poignant personal significance. One thing's for sure, Skinner will soon be staring death straight in the eye…

Skinner's Ghosts
The seventh book in the highly acclaimed Skinner series.
Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner could be forgiven for thinking not only that someone up there doesn't like him, but someone down here is out to get him. Suffering the strain of a marriage on the rocks, the last thing he needs is for his private life to be plastered across the front page of a sleazy tabloid. To make matters worse, when a woman, already linked to Skinner by tragedy, is found battered, raped and strangled, with her younger son a kidnap victim, his search for the killer becomes a personal quest. Finally, as a second brutal crime, and new allegations about the detective himself, make simultaneous headlines, he finds himself at the centre of a deadly maze of conspiracy.
As time ticks away, Skinner faces the greatest, and most personal, tests of his career. Unless he can clear his name, and uncover the secret behind the series of brutal crimes, he stands to lose all: his family, his career, and even his life and liberty.
Praise for the Skinner Series:
'The Skinner series grows in authority and should be a natural for television' Time Out Quintin Jardine was a journalist before joining the Government Information Service where he spent nine years as an advisor to Ministers and Civil Servants. Later he moved into political PR, until in 1985 he 'privatised' himself, to become and independent public relations consultant and writer.