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Summary
Summary
When two young female artists are murdered in what looks like ritualistic killings, the pressure is on to find a highly professional murderer. What is the link with the art world? Is the killer a disgruntled art critic? A twice-jilted lover? The arrival of the father of one of the victims, millionaire businessman Davor Boras, brings in the big guns of the Home Office, MI5 and the CIA. It's not long before Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner gets called back to the frontline. With an estranged son, a dubious assistant and connections in very high places, what is more important to Boras: business or family? There's too much at stake - there's going to be bloodshed - and Skinner's men are at risk of getting caught in the crossfire...
Author Notes
Quintin Jardine was born once upon a time in the West - of Scotland rather than America, but still he grew to manhood as a massive Sergio Leone fan. On the way there he was educated, against his will, in Glasgow, where he ditched a token attempt to study law for more interesting careers in journalism, government propaganda, and political spin-doctoring. After a close call with the Brighton Bomb in 1984, he moved into the even riskier world of media relations consultancy, before realising that all along he had been training to become a crime writer. Now, forty novels later, he never looks back.
Along the way he has created/acquired an extended family in Scotland and Spain. Everything he does is for them.
He can be tracked down through his blog: http://quintinjardine.me
Reviews 2
Publisher's Weekly Review
The star doesn't take center stage until late in Jardine's hard-hitting 17th Bob Skinner mystery (after 2007's Dead and Buried), but when he does, the Scottish deputy chief constable quickly makes his presence felt. Skinner's friends and colleagues on the force have been grappling with a possible serial killer who has claimed the lives of Stacey Gavin and Zrinka Boras, two young and attractive artists. The offer of a million-pound reward for the killer by Boras's father, a wealthy and well-connected businessman, hampers the official inquiry. After pursuing a flurry of false leads, the police find a personal connection between the victims, but their efforts to identify the man the two artists knew in common runs into unexpected interference from the security services. The novel's strength lies in the depiction of camaraderie among the police, which makes the tragedy that befalls one of them the more poignant, but readers should be prepared for routine prose and plotting. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Library Journal Review
While Edinburgh Detective Chief Constable Bob Skinner is on sabbatical, his team probes the murders of two young female artists and a young man in what appears to be ritualistic killings. As usual, the personal lives of the police officers play a part in the story; the unexpected conclusion will leave fans shocked. Jo Bannister, Peter Turnbull, and Ian Rankin can be considered read-a-likes, but when it comes to the depiction of a multilevel police force in action, Jardine, who also writes the Oz Blackstone series, stands alone. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
