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Quintin Jardine is the author of two much-acclaimed and best-selling series of detective novels, as Eddie Bell and Pat Lomax, his agents, can be heard proclaiming to anyone who is listening, at book festivals around the world.
QJ is a crusty but urbane Scot, in his prime, and done with disclosing his age. (What’s that got to do with it anyway?) He was born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, and educated there and in Glasgow, where he studied snooker and, in his leisure moments, law, at what was then the city’s only University. After deciding that he would never reach professional status in either discipline, he looked towards a broader horizon. He enjoyed, most of the time, a wholly unplanned, but eventful career as a journalist, government information officer, political spin-doctor and media relations consultant, before deciding to find a job that was more in touch with reality. Thus he took to the creation of crime fiction like a Trident-loaded nuclear submarine to water.
He began work on an escape tunnel out of Motherwell in 1968; he surfaced briefly in Hamilton, but, realising very quickly that he had been heading in the wrong direction, resumed digging and three years later arrived in Gullane, East Lothian, where he has lived ever since. In recent years he has put down a second set of roots … a physically nonsensical metaphor, but you know what he means … in L’Escala, the only north-facing town on the Catalan Costa Brava, which is famed for its main products, anchovies and more Catalans, and notorious for a north wind, the Tramuntana, which can drive its men mad, but more usually, to drink. (Its women, ever practical, simply shrug and hang out the washing.)
He is married, to his second wife, Eileen, a beautiful Geordie, who tolerates, with a wistful smile, most of his eccentricities, including insatiable appetites for televised sport and for playing music very loud. His first wife, the glorious Irene, with whom he shared over 30 years, from their teens, died in 1997. Today, the Jardines enjoy an extended family of four adult kids, two Tonkinese cats, and three grand-dogs. They live, not as quietly as they should, in both Scotland and in Spain, although never in both places at once.
The Bob Skinner novels are set in Edinburgh, and are built around the adventures of the city's wholly fictional deputy chief constable, labelled early on by the Headline marketing department as ‘Britain's toughest cop’. (Actually he was originally labelled ‘Scotland’s toughest cop’, until QJ pointed out that he hoped to sell south, as well as north, of the border.) There are seventeen books in publication, from the fledgling 'Skinner's Rules', nominated in 1993 for the John Creasey Award for best first crime novel of the year, to the latest, ‘Death's Door’, which has not been nominated as yet for anything, but which damn well should be, in the opinion of the author’s wife.
The Oz Blackstone mystery series is written in the first person and follows the narrator's hapless career as an unwilling detective, with an uncanny resemblance to Keanu Reeves, as he rises to international celebrity status by a quite unexpected and unplanned route, until Keanu Reeves is seen as having an uncanny resemblance to him. His exploits began with ‘Blackstone's Pursuits’ and continue through eight more novels to the much-praised ‘For the Death of Me’. The Oz series began as something QJ did on his holidays, and continues whenever he feels at his most irresponsible.
All twenty-six books are published by Headline in mass markets throughout the English speaking world, including the USA. They are also available, if you know where to look, in large print, for the visually handicapped, and unabridged audio format, for the hard of hearing. There are hopes that the Skinner books will one day form the basis of a television series. These hopes beat strongest in the breasts of the author’s publisher and agents, the man himself.
About author and audiobooks:
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/31642.Quintin_Jardine |
Bob Skinner series
Quintin Jardine - Skinner's Rules (read by Robbie MacNab)
Quintin Jardine - Skinner's Festival (read by Robbie MacNab)
Quintin Jardine - Skinner's Trail (read by Robbie MacNab)
Quintin Jardine - Skinner's Round (read by Robbie MacNab)
Quintin Jardine - Skinner's Ordeal (read by Robbie MacNab)
Quintin Jardine - Skinner's Mission (read by Robbie MacNab)
Quintin Jardine - Skinner's Ghosts (read by James Bryce)
Quintin Jardine - Murmuring The Judges (read by James Bryce)
Quintin Jardine - Gallery Whispers (read by James Bryce)
Quintin Jardine - Thursday Legends (read by James Bryce)
Quintin Jardine - Autographs In The Rain (read by James Bryce)
Quintin Jardine - Head Shot (read by James Bryce)
Quintin Jardine - Fallen Gods (read by James Bryce)
Quintin Jardine - Stay Of Execution (read by James Bryce)
Quintin Jardine - Lethal Intent (read by James Bryce)
Quintin Jardine - Dead And Buried (read by James Bryce)
Quintin Jardine - Death's Door (read by James Bryce)
Quintin Jardine - Aftershock (read by James Bryce)
Quintin Jardine - Fatal Last Words (read by James Bryce)
Quintin Jardine - A Rush Of Blood (read by James Bryce)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540baca7b759bd15030d1f4b701f4f2/Skinners_Rules.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0f7aecaaba574a17f474cb716821b211/Skinners_Festival.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9201e3b991a756af590cabb0840642d2/Skinners_Trail.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6fd9fd87aed730120fb1d6b6da62d6bf/Skinners_Round.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/bc98981b27a0de07f4d57c04315e8d69/Skinners_Ordeal.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c3b5a454f338ead2f8d455f8e1515608/Skinners_Mission.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/fd451749ea739ea2ebc3bf68f9bcd0bb/Skinners_Ghosts.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/520e6ac8f89ffd098d78deaa4c9abba6/Murmuring_The_Judges.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/964aa4bb86ba7ba1ca85b244b310a5c0/Gallery_Whispers.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/df7bd78288ad727d8f9e8f3aafd49033/Thursday_Legends.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d880a716ed20e804fd376fa1f13f6bf9/Autographs_In_The_Rain.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/03a2c3d8bbfe0951781c1393fb149c8a/Head_Shot.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/705dbf96fa2bd363165f2dcefc27486e/Fallen_Gods.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8490cff2d69e976d5a7190b7a3cae1c1/Stay_Of_Execution.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/32c5e6b94519905471e4e9accc3cfb2c/Lethal_Intent.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e31ebf3e709d023d59c16e0d18078316/Dead_And_Buried.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/13b0eb2526b301e3ee54358d50968edb/Deaths_Door.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/faacfcc4d6cffed2615b6619e91fecc9/Aftershock.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a8462db676ad9c41868b8256000f61b1/Fatal_Last_Words.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0036deaf8827986f4e04c0e8e39498c7/A_Rush_Of_Blood.rar.html |
Oz Blackstone series
Quintin Jardine - Blackstone's Pursuits (read by Joe Dunlop)
Quintin Jardine - A Coffin For Two (read by Joe Dunlop)
Quintin Jardine - Wearing Purple (read by Joe Dunlop)
Quintin Jardine - Screen Savers (read by Joe Dunlop)
Quintin Jardine - On Honeymoon With Death (read by Joe Dunlop)
Quintin Jardine - Poisoned Cherries (read by Joe Dunlop)
Quintin Jardine - Unnatural Justice (read by Joe Dunlop)
Quintin Jardine - Alarm Call (read by Joe Dunlop)
Quintin Jardine - For The Death Of Me (read by Joe Dunlop)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/34eed651b194a0db1ba5b678cfee25b5/Blackstones_Pursuits.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9e7a1e26f9c75d82375d2c373fafa2ba/A_Coffin_For_Two.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4c1b856226f6f754e2b1b581e9193334/Wearing_Purple.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5c2ef0252096c8c5d0530cca957f25a9/Screen_Savers.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/382e3c86fe3840753ee9fd04db84540c/On_Honeymoon_With_Death.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a445bdcb13353e971d9114687c8fcbad/Poisoned_Cherries.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f0bacf20f4293d9711dffbc9c8a3160f/Unnatural_Justice.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/49d85f03071e59480a4b8bd2b231e081/Alarm_Call.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1002cac08d3909aca34ba3a90318c065/For_The_Death_Of_Me.rar.html |
Primavera Blackstone series
Quintin Jardine - Inhuman Remains (read by Hilary Neville)
Quintin Jardine - Blood Red (read by Hilary Neville)
Quintin Jardine - As Easy As Murder (read by Julie Maisey)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/2c14f4b5fa92ac5b29171bac5eb267d3/Inhuman_Remains.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0f68d6990fdb2b0a4af2b34cf345d84e/Blood_Red.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3b5e5026f36c227abc52e81a7367d15e/As_Easy_As_Murder.rar.html |
Other Works
Quintin Jardine - The Loner (read by Cameron Stewart and Steve Worsley)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/896e918f7266e929fddc16f27b581b74/The_Loner.rar.html |
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