Bob Skinner Series 5 Books Collection Set by Quintin Jardine
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Skinner's Ordeal
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A plane explodes mid-flight and plunges to disaster from the Scottish skies, the British and American defence secretaries among the victims. Now Edinburgh Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner must lead the most high-profile investigation of his career. The means of destruction is apparent from the start, but the investigation quickly grows more puzzling.
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Skinner's Trail
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First the joyous birth of Skinners son Then the grim reality of murder in ones of Edinburgh prosperous suburbs. A man has been found knifed in a luxury villa. The victim had run a chain of launderettes, saunas and pubs throughout the city, but for some time the police suspected these to be the front for a drug-distribution network.
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Skinner's Round
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The opening of an elite country club, marked by a prestigious golf tournament, turns to chaos when a man is found dead in the clubhouse jacuzzi with his throat cut. When the murder is linked to a legendary witches curse, Assistant Chief Constable Bob Skinner thinks its fantasy. He is more concerned with harsh reality than East Lothians past as a centre for witchcraft. But when another body is found, he must uncover the disturbing truth beneath a dark mythology
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Skinner's Rules
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As head of Edinburgh 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 on the rampage. But when the lawyers fiancée is also murdered, Skinner realises that someone is in deadly earnest.
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Skinner's Festival
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Every August thousands of tourists and performers flood into Edinburgh for its famous festival. But this year, on the very first day, an explosion rocks Princes Street, and a man is killed. A few hours later, a threatening letter is delivered to the Secretary of State apparently from a freedom group demanding political separation from England. Assistant Chief Constable Bob Skinner, head of CID, quickly assembles his team, with SAS backup.