Quintin Jardine
6 SeriesQuintin Jardine is a Scottish crime fiction author known for the Bob Skinner, Oz Blackstone, and Primavera Blackstone series. Before becoming a novelist, he worked as a journalist, political information officer, and media relations consultant. Jardine, a native of Motherwell, studied law at Glasgow University and now splits his time between Gullane, East Lothian, and L’Escala, Costa Brava, Spain.
In Quintin Jardine's debut novel, "Skinner's Rules," the first of the Bob Skinner series, Detective Chief Bob Skinner leads Edinburgh's CID in the hunt for a serial killer. The investigation begins with the gruesome discovery of a mutilated young lawyer in an alleyway, followed by seemingly random killings across the city. The case escalates when the lawyer's fiancée is also found dead. As the body count rises, Skinner must unravel the motive behind these brutal murders to stop the killer before more lives are lost.
