Skinner's Festival
  • Published:
    Apr-1995 (Hardcover)
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    Print / eBook / Audio
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  • Main Genre:
    Police Procedural
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    310
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Countdown to disaster for Edinburgh's hardest cop...

Terrorists strike at the heart of the Edinburgh Festival in Skinner's Festival, Quintin Jardine's second novel in the ever popular Bob Skinner series. Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Val McDermid.


'Robustly entertaining' - Irish Times

An explosion rocks Princes Street in the midst of the Edinburgh Festival. Responsibility is claimed by a group supposedly demanding political separation from Britain, but as atrocities escalate Skinner realises this is no gang of fanatics, but a highly professional team. The Fighters for an Independent Scotland want the English out of Scotland too and they're ready to back up their demands with bombings, murders and blackmail threats aimed at wreaking havoc at the Edinburgh Festival of the Arts.

But the Fighters haven't reckoned with Assistant Chief Constable Bob Skinner, head of the Edinburgh CID and security adviser to Secretary of State Alan Ballantyne. Even as craven Ballantyne vows empty defiance of the Fighters, defending his principles with the blood of innocent coppers and bystanders, Skinner assembles a crack task force, carries the ball when the Secretary fumbles on the air, and wrestles with the beast within, who emerges with periodic ferocity to foil a clever, greedy scheme involving the crown jewels and Skinner's own daughter.

What readers are saying about Skinner's Festival:

'Gripping, plot twisting brilliance, a true thriller'

'Suspense from beginning to end'

'Totally absorbing'

'Couldn't put it down'
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EDITIONS
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    •  
    • Dec-1994
    • Headline (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0747241406
    • ISBN13: 9780747241409
    •  
    • Aug-2009
    • Headline (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 075535771X
    • ISBN13: 9780755357710
    • First Edition
    • Apr-1995
    • St. Martin's
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0312118929
    • ISBN13: 9780312118921
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    • Nov-2008
    • Headline (UK)
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Nov-2008
    • Headline (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0755353544
    • ISBN13: 9780755353545
    •  
    • Oct-2000
    • Magna Story Sound
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1859033954
    • ISBN13: 9781859033951
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    • Mar-2013
    • Isis Publishing Ltd
    • Audible
    •  
    • Aug-2013
    • ISIS Audio Books
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 144502571X
    • ISBN13: 9781445025711
    •  
    • Aug-2013
    • ISIS Audio Books
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1445025701
    • ISBN13: 9781445025704
    •  
    • Aug-2013
    • ISIS Audio Books
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1445025728
    • ISBN13: 9781445025728



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