Stay of Execution (Bob Skinner series, Book 14) - Evil stalks the pages of this gripping Edinburgh crime thriller

Informationen zum Autor Quintin Jardine was born once upon a time in the West - of Scotland rather than America, but still he grew to manhood as a massive Sergio Leone fan. On the way there he was educated, against his will, in Glasgow, where he ditched a token attempt to study law for more interesting careers in journalism, government propaganda, and political spin-doctoring. After a close call with the Brighton Bomb in 1984, he moved into the even riskier world of media relations consultancy, before realising that all along he had been training to become a crime writer. Now, forty novels later, he never looks back. Along the way he has created/acquired an extended family in Scotland and Spain. Everything he does is for them. He can be tracked down through his blog: http://quintinjardine.me Klappentext 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? Zusammenfassung Can you fight evil with evil...? DCC Bob Skinner faces his toughest investigation...

Product details

• Authors: Quintin Jardine, Jardine Quintin
• Publisher: Headline
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9780755358717
• ISBN: 978-0-7553-5871-7
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Bob Skinner; Bob Skinner
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / General, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Crime & mystery, FICTION / City Life, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Scotland, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit