Quintin Jardine

As head of Edinburgh’s CID, Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Skinner has seen it all....

When struggling ex-copper Terry Coats was discovered in bed with an air hostess, his excuse that he was 'going undercover' cut no ice with the force - or his wife. But now he's been brutally killed on Hogmanay night, it seems there may have been more to his plea....

A shocking murder at the Palace of Westminster draws Edinburgh's toughest cop into a complex new case....

The killing was an expert hit. Three shots through the head, as the lights dimmed at a celebrity concert in Glasgow....

The body of a murdered woman is found washed up on Cramond Island near the mouth of the River Forth....

After a tip-off, a man's body is exhumed from a shallow grave in Edinburgh....

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....

First the joyous birth of Skinner’s son… Then the grim reality of murder in ones of Edinburgh’s prosperous suburbs....

When an Edinburgh car showroom is torched, Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner wonders if a life of crime has finally caught up with one of the city’s most elusive villains....

Every August thousands of tourists and performers flood into Edinburgh for its famous festival....

Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner could be forgiven for thinking that someone is out to get him....

Brought up by his hard-nosed father and ferocious Spanish grandmother....

The world of books is focused on Charlotte Square Gardens, so it's a considerable embarrassment when a crime writer and key member of the Scottish Parliament is found dead....

With a gang of ruthless killers at large, it's down to Skinner to piece together a puzzle of sinister complexity....

Still reeling from the tragic death of their much-loved colleague, Skinner's men are about to discover that a disturbed serial killer is still at large and very close to home....

Ten years ago Oz Blackstone, movie icon, died tragically while filming in remote Guatemala; mourned by millions, his story came to an end, and his secrets died with him....

Born to Be Wild began with the death of Oz Blackstone, movie hero and idol of millions. The Last Chickenpig carries on the yarn as 17-year-old Tom, Oz's son, goes in search of the father he mourns....

Once upon a time in what was then reasonably Great Britain, there was a world in which the not too serious business of politics was practised without those people known today....

After cracking their first case together as a private investigation team, Oz Blackstone and Primavera Philips find themselves simultaneously in love and in the money....

Newly married to his childhood sweetheart and happily settled in Glasgow, private enquiry agent Oz Blackstone is looking for some excitement....