Skinner's Rules
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| Author | Quintin Jardine |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Hodder Headline |
Publication date | 1993 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 312 pp |
| ISBN | 0-7472-4139-2 |
| OCLC | 30111109 |
| Followed by | Skinner's Festival |
Skinner's Rules is a 1993 novel by Quintin Jardine. It is the first of the Bob Skinner novels.
Plot
The novel, like all in the Skinner series, is set in Edinburgh. It features, Head of CID, Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Skinner and his assistant Detective Inspector Andrew Martin. It begins when they are called to a close in the Royal Mile where an advocate by the name of Michael Mortimer has been savagely murdered and mutilated. It isn't long before another murder takes place in a similar location and the police think that it is likely to be the work of a psychopathic serial killer. However, the case takes a dramatic twist when Mortimer's fiancee is also found dead and it appears to Bob Skinner that there is a definite connection despite three seemingly random murders in between, leading to what could be a deep-rooted international conspiracy.
The book also introduces us to Skinner's future wife, Dr Sarah Grace, an American physician who works with the police force.
List of Characters
- DCS/ACC Robert "Bob" Skinner
- DI/DCI Andrew "Andy" Martin
- Dr Sarah Grace
- Chief Constable James Proud
- DS/DI Brian Mackie
- DS Maggie Rose
- WPC Aileen Stimson
- DC Mario McGuire
- DC Neil McIlhenny