Book description
The brilliant new Bob Skinner mystery by the master of crime fiction,
his most ambitious ever. After a tip-off, a man's body is exhumed from a
shallow grave in Edinburgh. Murder surely, yet he died from natural
causes, so, case closed? Indeed was there ever a case? But Chief
Constable Skinner and his people keep on digging. Who was the man, why
was he buried so reverentially, and by whom? Meanwhile corruption is
discovered within the force, and an investigation launched. Immersed in
crises, his marriage heading for the rocks, Skinner finds his very
career hanging in the balance, its fate beyond his control. In a tale
seen through the eyes of each of its leading players, Quintin Jardine,
the Crimemaster, lays mystery upon mystery until the greatest threat of
all those facing the Chief is revealed, and a deadly race begins. Can he
win out, or will his life implode? Quintin Jardine gave up the life of
a political spin doctor for the more morally acceptable world of murder
and mayhem. Happily married, he hides from critics and creditors in
secret locations in Scotland and Spain.
