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Diese Serie spannender Kriminalromane begleitet die Karriere und die Abenteuer eines entschlossenen Polizeichefs in der historischen Stadt Edinburgh. Jeder Teil entführt die Leser in das Herz komplexer Ermittlungen, wo dunkle Geheimnisse und gefährliche Verbrecher lauern. Die Erzählungen verbinden meisterhaft spannende Verbrechenaufklärung mit den persönlichen Herausforderungen, denen sich der Protagonist stellen muss. Dies ist ein Muss für Fans atmosphärischer Polizeiverfahren und fesselnder charaktergetriebener Mysterien.

Skinnerova pravidla
A Brush with Death (Bob Skinner series, Book 29)
Skinner's Rules (Bob Skinner series, Book 1)
Skinner's Round (Bob Skinner series, Book 4)
Pray for the Dying
Aftershock (Bob Skinner series, Book 18)

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    Skinnerova pravidla

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    Vrchní inspektor Bob Skinner viděl jako šéf edinburské kriminální policie snad vše, když je však jednou časně ráno nalezena v centru města mrtvola s doslova odříznutou hlavou šokuje to nejen jeho zástupce Andyho Martina, ale i samotného Skinnera. Obětí je mladý úspěšný advokát ve věcech trestních a motiv jeho zavraždění zůstává záhadou. Skinner ho zpočátku hledá v jeho advokátní praxi, nic, co by mohlo být pohnutkou k takto brutální vraždě, však nenachází. Vzápětí poté začíná v Edinburghu série podobně brutálních vražd, jejich oběti byly zjevně vybrány zcela náhodně. Skinner a jeho tým zpočátku usoudí, že mají co do činění se sériovým vrahem, ale Skinner tomu odmítá uvěřit. Do vyšetřování se vloží vysoká politika a Skinner je na zásah z Londýna nucen případ uzavřít. Nadále se odmítá vzdát, navzdory tomu, že musí se svým týmem pokračovat zpola na zapřenou. Navzdory všem úskalím setrvá u vlastních pravidel a u zásady, že budou platit přinejmenším v Edinburghu. To se mu nakonec přes nebezpečí a ohrožení jeho vlastního života také podaří. ..

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    Krvavý festival

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    Složky skotské kriminální policie a tajných služeb jsou v pohotovosti a pod vedením svých šéfů, Andyho Martina a Boba Skinnera se pouštějí do složité operace, jejíž pozadí se zdá být zprvu zahaleno neproniknutelným tajemství. Dějištěm teroristických akcí je letní festival v Edinburghu, jehož představení se konají na stovkách jevišť a vystupují na nich tisíce účinkujících. A hned první den festivalu teroristé zaútočí, další dny pak své útoky stupňují a mrtvých i zraněných přibývá. Původně se zdá, že se jedná o činy neznámé skotské teroristické skupiny, ale záhy dostává pátrání nový směr, když jsou na jednom předmětu objeveny otisky prstů pověstné americké teroristky a surové vražedkyně. Do pátrání se okamžitě zapojují MI5, MI6 i FBI, s jejichž pomocí se Skinner a Martin snaží zabránit plánovanému útoku… Druhý díl Jardinovy detektivní sírie s Bobem Skinerem v hlavní roli.

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    Skinner's trail

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    Skinner is on the trail of organised crime and a cold-blooded killer in this gripping third novel in Quintin Jardine's bestselling crime series. First the joyous birth of Skinner's son...then the grim reality of murder in one of Edinburgh's prosperous suburbs. A man has been found knifed in a luxury villa. The victim had run a chain of laundrettes, saunas and pubs throughout the city, but for some time the police suspected these to be the front for a drug distribution network. Moving from Scotland to northern Spain, then back to a chilling climax in Edinburgh, this complex and suspenseful thriller follows a tortuous and bloodsoaked trail...

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    Skinner's Round

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    • 16 Lesestunden

    Bob Skinner must challenge local beliefs and legends to solve a gruesome murder in this fourth installment in the fantastic Scottish crime series. A four-day tournament involving the world's leading golfers is being staged to mark the opening of a new country club created on the Marquis of Kinture's East Lothian estate. But on the previous Sunday afternoon, one of Kinture's business partners is found dead in his private jacuzzi in the clubhouse - with his throat cut. The next day an anonymous letter is received by the local newspaper, containing a fragment of a legendary witches' curse upon anyone who desecrates their place of worship. When a second murder occurs, this time by water, ACC Bob Skinner finds himself facing the most challenging case of his career...

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    Skinner's mission

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    • 15 Lesestunden
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    When an Edinburgh car showroom is torched, leaving a fortune in luxury sports cars destroyed and one badly charred body, Skinner finds himself on the same side as a man he's been trying to nail while they both search for the man's wife's killer.

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    Head Shot

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    • 14 Lesestunden
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    Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner has witnessed the aftermath of murder countless times. Yet nothing could have prepared him for identifying the strangled bodies of his wife's beloved parents, killed at their lakeside cabin in New York State. Driven by cold rage, Skinner quickly muscles in on the investigation, and soon he's found links with three other cases where the killing is too professional to be the result of a burglary gone wrong. But can he penetrate the multiple layers of intrigue to unearth the killer?

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    Stay of Execution

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    • 17 Lesestunden
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    Can you fight evil with evil...? DCC Bob Skinner faces his toughest investigation... Evil stalks the city of Edinburgh. This time the threat is bigger than the crooks, scam-artists or drug dealers who find their prey in the shadows of the streets. Some people are looking for a big-time hit. The body of a respectable businessman is found hanging from a tree; a veteran from a Belgian marching band is killed in a hit-and-run incident and another dies of an apparent heart attack. Excitement on the streets of Edinburgh is feverish as the city prepares for a huge rally to celebrate the return of Pope John the 25th to his hometown. The security has to be bulletproof. But there is a chink in the armour. Does Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner have the inner strength to find the answer to the biggest question of all?

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    Aftershock

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    • 16 Lesestunden

    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. It's the second week of July Trades Holiday in Edinburgh and things seem very quiet. Until, that is, DCC Bob Skinner and his men get a call informing them that the body of a young woman has been found on a golf course. It's been there for ten days so she's not a pretty sight. But the way she has been laid out is uncannily familiar. The body has been 'composed', just like the bodies of three other young women in a previous case. Could it be the work of a copycat killer? The murder victim is an art teacher who was having a relationship with the son of a Tory MP. Her ex-boyfriend is a policeman with a reputation as a serious womaniser. It seems the murder trail is getting much too close for comfort...

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    Fatal Last Words

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    It's no ordinary summer for DCC Bob Skinner, as murder mystery leaps from the page into reality in the nineteenth volume of Quintin Jardine's outstanding cop series. It's August and the Edinburgh International Book Festival is in full swing. So it's a considerable embarrassment when one of Scotland's most successful crime writers is found dead in the author tent. The victim's phone was tapped. Are the spooks involved? Or has mystery fiction become true crime? A second victim begs the question: have the authors become targets themselves?

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    Pray for the Dying

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    'After what happened, none of us can be sure we're going to see tomorrow.' The killing was an expert hit. Three shots through the head, as the lights dimmed at a celebrity concert in Glasgow. A most public crime, and Edinburgh Chief Constable Bob Skinner is right in the centre of the storm. The shooters were killed at the scene, but who sent them? The crisis finds Skinner taking a step that he had sworn he never would. Tasked with the investigation of the outrage, he finds himself uncovering some very murky deeds...The trail leads to London, and a confrontation that seems too much, even for him. Can the Chief solve the most challenging mystery of his career...or will failure end it?

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    Hour Of Darkness

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    Quintin Jardine's twenty-fourth Bob Skinner novel sees the Edinburgh cop faced with a case that calls every part of his life into question. The body of a murdered woman is found washed up on Cramond Island near the mouth of the River Forth. Days later detectives are called to a flat in Edinburgh; the kitchen is covered in blood, and the occupier is missing. When the name of the woman from Cramond Island is revealed, it stirs unwelcome memories for those who knew her, Chief Constable Bob Skinner most of all. Now based in Glasgow, he has no reason to become involved in the case. Yet he does, unwittingly setting in motion a course that leads him to the toughest choice of his life, putting him in the midst of a personal nightmare, both life threatening and career changing.

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    Private Investigations

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    Quintin Jardine's twenty-sixth Bob Skinner mystery sees the Edinburgh sleuth plunged into a gruelling new case in which no score will go unsettled. Enjoying life as a private citizen after a thirty-year police career, Bob Skinner is on the way to answer a friend's plea for help when a freak accident gives him an unwelcome glimpse of the dark side. As his former colleagues investigate the mystery of a dead child in the boot of a stolen car, the ex-Chief Constable undertakes an unusual challenge of his own, tracing a missing multi-million pound yacht that has vanished from its moorings. The two events seem unconnected, yet as the casualty count rises, is there a link that no one has seen? The whodunnit is clear. The mystery is: why.

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    Game Over (Bob Skinner series, Book 27)

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    Edinburgh's toughest cop returns - the twenty-seventh mystery in Quintin Jardine's ever-popular Bob Skinner series. 'Quintin Jardine's slick and suspenseful Edinburgh-set series has never failed to keep me riveted... Game Over ... starts with a bang and doesn't let up till the last sentence... One of Jardine's best' Globe and Mail

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    State Secrets (Bob Skinner series, Book 28)

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    Edinburgh's toughest cop is drawn into a gripping new case at the Palace of Westminster, a tangled web of state secrets and enemies. The twenty-eighth mystery in Quintin Jardine's ever-popular Bob Skinner series.

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    A Brush with Death (Bob Skinner series, Book 29)

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    Leo Speight had everything, and plenty of people wanted to take him down... Scotland's toughest cop returns to solve a high-profile murder. The twenty- ninth mystery in the bestselling Bob Skinner series by Quintin Jardine, the critically acclaimed author of GAME OVER and STATE SECRETS.

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    Cold Case (Bob Skinner series, Book 30)

    • 384 Seiten
    • 14 Lesestunden

    Is a killer still on the loose? The thirtieth gripping mystery in the bestselling Bob Skinner series by Quintin Jardine, the acclaimed author of GAME OVER and STATE SECRETS. 'If Ian Rankin is the Robert Carlyle of Scottish crime writers, then Jardine is surely its Sean Connery' Glasgow Herald

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