Bob Skinner Series & more by Quintin Jardine ~ 52 MP3 AUDIOBOOK COLLECTION

Quintin Jardine is the author of two much-acclaimed and best-selling series of detective novels, as Eddie Bell and Pat Lomax, his agents, can be heard proclaiming to anyone who is listening, at book festivals around the world. QJ is a crusty but urbane Scot, in his prime, and done with disclosing his age. (What’s that got to do with it anyway?) He was born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, and educated there and in Glasgow, where he studied snooker and, in his leisure moments, law, at what was then the city’s only University. After deciding that he would never reach professional status in either discipline, he looked towards a broader horizon. He enjoyed, most of the time, a wholly unplanned, but eventful career as a journalist, government information officer, political spin-doctor and media relations consultant, before deciding to find a job that was more in touch with reality. Thus he took to the creation of crime fiction like a Trident-loaded nuclear submarine to water. He began work on an escape tunnel out of Motherwell in 1968; he surfaced briefly in Hamilton, but, realising very quickly that he had been heading in the wrong direction, resumed digging and three years later arrived in Gullane, East Lothian, where he has lived ever since. In recent years he has put down a second set of roots … a physically nonsensical metaphor, but you know what he means … in L’Escala, the only north-facing town on the Catalan Costa Brava, which is famed for its main products, anchovies and more Catalans, and notorious for a north wind, the Tramuntana, which can drive its men mad, but more usually, to drink. (Its women, ever practical, simply shrug and hang out the washing.) He is married, to his second wife, Eileen, a beautiful Geordie, who tolerates, with a wistful smile, most of his eccentricities, including insatiable appetites for televised sport and for playing music very loud. His first wife, the glorious Irene, with whom he shared over 30 years, from their teens, died in 1997. Today, the Jardines enjoy an extended family of four adult kids, two Tonkinese cats, and three grand-dogs. They live, not as quietly as they should, in both Scotland and in Spain, although never in both places at once. The Bob Skinner novels are set in Edinburgh, and are built around the adventures of the city's wholly fictional deputy chief constable, labelled early on by the Headline marketing department as ‘Britain's toughest cop’. (Actually he was originally labelled ‘Scotland’s toughest cop’, until QJ pointed out that he hoped to sell south, as well as north, of the border.) There are seventeen books in publication, from the fledgling 'Skinner's Rules', nominated in 1993 for the John Creasey Award for best first crime novel of the year, to the latest, ‘Death's Door’, which has not been nominated as yet for anything, but which damn well should be, in the opinion of the author’s wife.

CONTENT:

Bob Skinner Series
1. Skinner's Rules (read by James Bryce)
2. Skinner's Festival (read by James Bryce)
3. Skinner's Trail (read by James Bryce)
4. Skinner's Round (read by James Bryce)
5. Skinner's Ordeal (read by James Bryce)
6. Skinner's Mission (read by James Bryce)
7. Skinner's Ghosts (read by James Bryce)
8. Murmuring The Judges (read by James Bryce)
9. Gallery Whispers (read by James Bryce)
10. Thursday Legends (read by James Bryce)
11. Autographs In The Rain (read by James Bryce)
12. Head Shot (read by James Bryce)
13. Fallen Gods (read by James Bryce)
14. Stay Of Execution (read by James Bryce)
15. Lethal Intent (read by James Bryce)
16. Dead And Buried (read by James Bryce)
17. Death's Door (read by James Bryce)
18. Aftershock (read by James Bryce)
19. Fatal Last Words (read by James Bryce)
20. A Rush Of Blood (read by James Bryce)
21. Grievous Angel (read by James Bryce)
22. Funeral Note (read by James Bryce)
23. Pray For The Dying (read by James Bryce)
24. Hour Of Darkness (read by James Bryce)
25. Last Resort (read by James Bryce)
26. Private Investigations (read by James Bryce)
27. Game Over (read by James Bryce)
28. State Secrets (read by James Bryce)
29. A Brush With Death (read by James Bryce)
30. Cold Case (read by James Bryce)
31. The Bad Fire (read by James Bryce)
32. The Roots Of Evil (read by James Bryce)
33. Deadlock (read by James Bryce)
34. Open Season (read by James Bryce)
35. The Cage (read by James Bryce)
36. Secrets And Lies (read by James Bryce)
Oz Blackstone Series
37. Blackstone's Pursuits (read by Joe Dunlop)
38. A Coffin For Two (read by Joe Dunlop)
39. Wearing Purple (read by Joe Dunlop)
40. Screen Savers (read by Joe Dunlop)
41. On Honeymoon With Death (read by Joe Dunlop)
42. Poisoned Cherries (read by Joe Dunlop)
43. Unnatural Justice (read by Joe Dunlop)
44. Alarm Call (read by Joe Dunlop)
45. For The Death Of Me (read by Joe Dunlop)
Primavera Blackstone Series
46. Inhuman Remains (read by Hilary Neville)
47. Blood Red (read by Hilary Neville)
48. As Easy As Murder (read by Julie Maisey)
49. Deadly Business (read by Emma D'Inverno)
50. As Serious As Death (read by Penelope Freeman)
Non-Series
51. The Loner (read by Cameron Stewart, Steve Worsley)
52. Mathew's Tale (read by James Bryce)

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