- Fiction, Police, Bob Skinner (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
A murder in an affluent Edinburgh suburb leaves Assistant Chief Constable Bob Skinner baffled. Then a case of property fraud takes Skinner in a new direction. Moving from Scotland to Spain to a climax in Edinburgh, this thriller follows a trail involving vice, corruption and the merchants of death.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Quintin Jardine
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press, Headline Book Publishing, Headline
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312144173
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