Head Shot (Bob Skinner Mysteries) [Hardcover]

Quintin Jardine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2003 | Series: Bob Skinner Mysteries

Assistant Chief Constable Bob Skinner’s legendary cool is severely shaken when he’s faced with the brutally murdered bodies of his wife’s parents. At the death scene in New York, Skinner’s out of his jurisdiction—but he’s not going to let that stop him from shaping the investigation. It’s soon clear that there’s a killer hunting down a group of men with links that go back to the sixties, and that he’s acting on instructions from highly placed sources. But just how high? Meanwhile, back in Edinburgh, Detective Superintendent Maggie Rose and her husband Mario, Divisional CID Commander, are faced with a secret from their past that could bring their days at the police force crashing to a halt.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Edinburgh cop Bob Skinner undergoes the worst ordeal of his career-identifying the bodies of his wife's parents, strangled to death in their upstate New York cabin-in Head Shot, an uncompromisingly tough police procedural by Quentin Jardine, author of On Honeymoon with Death and other titles in this Scottish writer's Oz Blackstone mystery series.
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Review

“If Ian Rankin is the Robert Carlyle of Scottish crime writing, then Jardine is surely its Sean Connery.” -- Glasgow Herald

“Jardine excels at coordinating the multiple crimes crucial to a police procedural and setting his coppers against the clock.” -- Kirkus Reviews --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing (February 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0747274479
• ISBN-13: 978-0747274476
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,846,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Don't try unless you've read the rest, January 4, 2005

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Carol Denehy (Canberra, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Head Shot (Bob Skinner Mysteries) (Paperback)

I picked up this book used due to the praise for the other books in the series. I gave up about a third of the way through because so much of it involved people within the Scottish police community whom I didn't know and especially the politics involved in the bureaucracy. The mystery Bob Skinner is solving is intriguing but too little of the book is about that. In addition, much is about the various agencies of police in three different locales (plus the FBI) fighting over jurisdiction. That has been done to death in every police procedural and is a bit old by this time. Also, the non-American English put into Americans' mouths grates after a while. If a non-American is attempting to use slang, please get it right. If you know all the characters from the previous 11 novels, you might like it better than I did.