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Death's Door (Bob Skinner Mysteries) by: Quintin Jardine List Price: £7.99 City Travel Guides Price: £5.09 You Save: £2.90 (36%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914 EAN: 9780755329113 ISBN: 0755329112 Label: Headline Manufacturer: Headline Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 480 Publication Date: February 07, 2008 Publisher: Headline Studio: Headline Sales Rank: 7129 Related Items: Related Items:      see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
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 Rating:  - I'm not sure that this is the best place to start with JardineQuintin Jardine writes a number of serial style books about recurring characters. One of his recurring characters is Bob Skinner, the Deputy Chief Constable for the Edinburgh area of Scotland. By all accounts he's typical of most detectives these days. He bends rules when he needs to, and breaks them when he has no other alternative, but unlike most rule breaking cops, is liked by those he works with (and so has few of the flaws that are typically associated with the flawed detective). The problem with this book is that Skinner doesn't appear in much of the book. Imagine having a Rankin book with a marginalised Rebus or a Christie crime novel with a marginalised Poirot or Marple and you've got an idea of what to expect here. Read More: Rating:  - Waiting for skinner?How do you write a Bob Skinner novel without Bob Skinner ? Very well appears to be the answer. This novel I'm sure would baffle anyone attempting this as their first introduction to the series, it's taken me a while but I've finally caught up having read the whole series in order. This story is more about DI Stevie Steele and the excellent Mario mcguire as has been mentioned Bob Skinner doesn't appear until almost the end of the book. The story though is excellent a girl is found shot in the back of the head and laid out like an angel the scene almost identical to the murder of another young girl killed 2 months ago. Links between the two girls they are both talented artists has Edinburgh got a severe art critic running loose or a serial ... Read More: Rating: - Where is Bob?As a great fan of Bob Skinner I was a little disappointed as he only appears towards the end of the book. However, he was supposed to be on sabbatical! I really enjoyed getting to know some of the other characters though and to get more of an insight into people we have met in earlier books. I was sad at the loss of a great character and did fing the ending a little turgid. Still, onwards and upwards! Rating:  - Too cosyI find the Edinburgh Police squad a cosy bunch. Everybody is doing it with everybody. Al are related or at least were related in the past. I never read about a police force with so many cross relations between the characters. I have read all Jardine's books about Bob Skinner, but this is the first one where policing is not the highest priority. Earlier books had the same tendency, but this is awful. Maybe my last Skinner novel. 2 Stars for old times sake. Rating: - Will it get betterI'm about half way through this book and to be honest it's only the overall plot thats keeping me going. I haven't noticed this in any of his other books but I'm finding the dialogue between various characters (particularly the couples) quite clunky. It all seems a bit forced and uncomfortable and when I read it I almost feel like I'm watching a couple of bad actors read a script. Hope it gets better! |
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