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2000s: Skinner crashes his car, but the wreckage is not the problem, it’s what inside the boot of the other car that is..
Private Investigations (Skinner 26)
What you need to know before your trail
Former Chief Constable Bob Skinner has uncovered his fair share of crime scenes over his thirty-year career. But few have affected him quite as much as the horrifying sight he finds stowed in the back of a stolen car that collides with his own on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
As his former colleagues investigate, Skinner takes on an unusual commission of his own.
The body count rises, motives appear, the hunt goes global, and potential conflicts surface. In his new guise, is Skinner is on the side of the angels…or working against them
Travel Guide
Bob Skinner’s Edinburgh
Bob Skinner has left the police force and come out of retirement in this latest case. Rasons for him leaving the force were covered in the last novel “Last Resort”
Things don’t start well in this new career – he has a crash in a car park and finds a dead body in the boot of the other car.
Civie street is not an easy street to walk down but now Bob Skinner has the street knowledge and the experience to do the job. This is his Edinburgh after all, a city he has known and breathed for many years, Not to mention the meals in the The Flotterstone Inn just outside the city. It’s a real pub where you might indeed find a real Pye and Sauce in food form rather than
(DCI Sammy Pye and DS Harold “Sauce” Haddock)
The political and financial constraints of the police in Scotland is a major theme in the book and there are problems as always with the shifting allegiances and lack of staff.
But Bob Skinner’s former best friend Andrew Martin is now the Chief Constable of Police Scotland. A tough job. Some would say impossible
Streetview Maps
C) Edinburgh -Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
D) Edinburgh - Flotterstone Inn
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Private Investigations (Skinner 26)
Author/ Guide: Quintin Jardine Destination: Edinburgh Departure Time: 2000s
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