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. ..
Bob Skinner Série
Tato série napínavých detektivek sleduje osudy ambiciózního policejního náčelníka ve skotském Edinburghu. Každý případ ho zavede hlouběji do temných zákoutí města, kde se střetává s prohnanými zločinci a složitými osobními dilematy. Čtenáři se mohou těšit na napětí, propracované zápletky a detailní vykreslení života ve skotské metropoli. Série je ideální pro milovníky klasických detektivních příběhů s charismatickým hrdinou.






Doporučené pořadí čtení
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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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Skinnerova stopa
- 280 stránek
- 10 hodin čtení
Třetí příběh s drsným policistou Bobem Skinnerem v hlavní roli. Vražda, domnělá sebevražda, vyhrůžky, drogy a sex. Série zločinů donutí komisaře Skinnera vydat se po horké stopě přes několik států, aby našel vrahy a odhalil pašeráky heroinu. Brutální metody zločinců ho donutí opustit rodinu, zanechat doma manželku Sarah i sotva narozeného synka Jazze, a čelit nebezpečí, které se zpočátku zdá neuchopitelné. Jak stopa vychládá, ztrácí Skinner trpělivost a začíná zuřit. V okamžiku, kdy se stopa znovu objeví, vyráží po ní jako lovecký pes. Neváhá ani v okamžiku, kdy se samotný ocitne vrahovi tváří v tvář. Chladnokrevně se pouští do boje na život a na smrt.
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Skinner's Round
- 436 stránek
- 16 hodin čtení
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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DCC Bob Skinner takes centre stage again in this high-octane crime novel; the fifth in the acclaimed Edinburgh police series
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Skinner's mission
- 416 stránek
- 15 hodin čtení
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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Skinner's Ghosts (Bob Skinner series, Book 7)
- 405 stránek
- 15 hodin čtení
The seventh book in the highly praised DCC Bob Skinner series is both ingenious and haunting
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Murmuring the Judges (Bob Skinner series, Book 8)
- 448 stránek
- 16 hodin čtení
The eighth book in the gripping DCC Bob Skinner series by bestselling author Quintin Jardine
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The ninth novel in the 'deplorably readable' (Guardian) Edinburgh police series featuring DCC Bob Skinner
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Thursday Legends (Bob Skinner series, Book 10)
- 416 stránek
- 15 hodin čtení
DCC Bob Skinner faces his most challenging case in the tenth title in Quintin Jardine's bestselling crime series
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Autographs in the Rain (Bob Skinner series, Book 11)
- 416 stránek
- 15 hodin čtení
DCC Bob Skinner is about to find out that nothing is quite what it seems in the eleventh title in the bestselling crime series by Quintin Jardine
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Head Shot
- 384 stránek
- 14 hodin čtení
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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Fallen Gods (Bob Skinner series, Book 13)
- 416 stránek
- 15 hodin čtení
Can Britain's sharpest detective, DCC Bob Skinner, draw triumph from tragedy?
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Stay of Execution
- 480 stránek
- 17 hodin čtení
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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Lethal Intent (Bob Skinner series, Book 15)
- 464 stránek
- 17 hodin čtení
A gripping and thought-provoking novel in the Bob Skinner series from crime master Quintin Jardine
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Dead and Buried (Bob Skinner series, Book 16)
- 480 stránek
- 17 hodin čtení
The brilliant bestseller from Scotland's King of Crime
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Death's Door (Bob Skinner series, Book 17)
- 480 stránek
- 17 hodin čtení
A serial killer is setting the most devious of traps for supercop DCC Bob Skinner...
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Death's door : a Bob Skinner mystery
- 416 stránek
- 15 hodin čtení
There's no end to the deviousness of a murderer, and DCC Bob Skinner won't stop until the killer is caught - the riveting new crime novel from Scotland's Crime Master
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Aftershock
- 436 stránek
- 16 hodin čtení
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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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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A thrilling mystery in the ever-popular Bob Skinner series by Scotland's Crime Master
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The thrilling new Bob Skinner mystery by Scotland's Crime Master
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Funeral Note (Bob Skinner series, Book 22)
- 462 stránek
- 17 hodin čtení
Ingenious and compelling, this is Quintin Jardine's most ambitious novel yet and an extraordinary achievement
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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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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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Last Resort (Bob Skinner series, Book 25)
- 416 stránek
- 15 hodin čtení
The landmark twenty-fifth novel novel in Quintin Jardine's hugely popular Bob Skinner crime series shows Edinburgh's toughest cop facing a very different kind of case
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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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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)
- 400 stránek
- 14 hodin čtení
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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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 stránek
- 14 hodin čtení
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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The Bad Fire (Bob Skinner series, Book 31)
- 400 stránek
- 14 hodin čtení
The gripping new mystery in the bestselling Bob Skinner series by Quintin Jardine, the acclaimed author of COLD CASE and STATE SECRETS. 'If Ian Rankin is the Robert Carlyle of Scottish crime writers, then Jardine is surely its Sean Connery' Glasgow Herald