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Head Shot (Paperback)

by Quintin Jardine (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Headline Book Publishing (1 Jul 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0755300599
  • ISBN-13: 978-0755300594
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 456,776 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Assistant Chief Constable Bob Skinner's legendary cool is shaken when he's faced with the brutally murdered bodies of his wife's parents. At the death scene in New York state, Skinner's out of his jurisdiction - but he's not going to let that stop him shaping the investigation. Soon it's clear that there's a killer hunting down a group of men with links that go back to the sixties, and that he's acting on instructions from highly placed sources. But just how high? Meantime back in Edinburgh Detective Superintendent Maggie Rose and her husband Mario, Divisional CID commander, are faced with a secret from that past that could bring their days in the police force crashing to a halt. And Skinner's not on hand to give out advice...

About the Author
After an eventful career as a spin doctor to the powerful, rich and notorious, fifteen years ago Quintin Jardine found that his talents were equally well fitted to the world of crime fiction. Now he is the author of twelve Bob Skinner crime novels as well as five Oz Blackstone ones.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Transatlantic intrigue, 15 Sep 2002
Every Skinner novel has a number of sub plots running simultaneously and Head Shot is no different in that respect. The death of his in-laws sees Skinner heading to the US to make arrangements as only he can. Meanwhile back in Edinburgh life moves on and many of the familiar characters emerge with leading roles as they progress through the ranks of Lothian and Borders Police.
The Atlantic Ocean divides the main plots within the book but in his usual short chapter style Quintin Jardine keeps the action running at fever pitch. As you might expect, although up to his neck in dealing with the death of his in-laws, Skinner still has a hand in the management of the storylines based back home in Edinburgh.
In this latest instalment of Skinner's career Quintin Jardine increases the prominence of several of the "lower ranks" with Mario Maguire especially growing in stature and displaying much of ther guile of his DCC.
I found this book a great read and almost un-put-downable finishing in record time. I see that I now have to wait until December for the next Jardine novel and switch back to Oz Blackstone mode. Well down Quintin - here's to the next instalment!
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3 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars loosing the plot, 3 Jun 2003
I have read all of the skinner novels to date and I have to say that regretably I feel that the author has "lost the plot". As time goes on each of the team starts to look more nad more like skinner himself. By this I mean in Skinners Rules he kills a man and because of his connections is not prosecuted, in more recent novels both Andy Martin and Maggie Rose have done the same - no matter how "morally right" the author would have us believe these murders are the fact that they are swept under the carpet all too easily detracts somewhat from the novels. Also in an earlier novel Skinner adopts a child who has been orphand by the killing of his parents, and here we are at the end of Head Shot and Mario is suggestiong that he and Maggie Rose do the same - only two days after she has killed her own father! Change the record please we haven't yet reached the point of human cloning - one Skinner is more than enough.

Skinner and his team also come across as rather too self assured and way too much of the hidden and not hidden threats to anyone who dares to disagree with them. The more recent novels have rather relied upon the main characters enjoying large amounts of luck to solve the cases, big Mcillhenny just happens to be out for a walk with his new girlfriend and spots a fishfarm in the borders, and in Head Shot the wife of Sarah's parents minister just happens to show Skinner a photo of Sarah and the ex-flame/FBI agent - please please please stop this nonsense or is all crime solved in this way?

As I say, I have read all of the Skinner novels to date and will probably continue to do so in the hope that some of the ploice team develop a few human frailties, and dare I say it Skinner himself may make a mistake!

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2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Give this one a miss!!, 10 Oct 2004
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With Head Shot, Jardine takes Skinner to New York. The way it is written, the scene could be anywhere in Britain, apart from the few references to the US and the FBI. His description is woefully lacking, and we're led to believe that the Deputy Director is so stupid that he needs Skinner's input to solve the crime. Jardine should stick to keeping "Superman" Skinner in Edinburgh. He also has so many officers getting promoted and moved around that I lost track of who was who and where they were going. This book reads like an amateur wrote it and indeed, if this was a first novel, I very much doubt that it would be picked up by a publisher. Stick to reading Ian Rankin if you want to read about an Edinburgh detective - Rebus is so much more believable.
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