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Book Reviews of Skinner's Festival (Bob Skinner, Bk 2)

Skinner's Festival (Bob Skinner, Bk 2)
Skinner's Festival - Bob Skinner, Bk 2
Author: Quintin Jardine
ISBN-13: 9780747241409
ISBN-10: 0747241406
Publication Date: 8/1/1994
Pages: 310
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 12 ratings
Publisher: Headline
Book Type: Paperback
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reviewed Skinner's Festival (Bob Skinner, Bk 2) on + 1217 more book reviews
As followers of the arts gather in Scotland's capital city at the end of the summer, so too does a well-organized gang of militant zealots intent on home rule. A bomb explodes in a tent near a shopping center; then an opera singer is murdered. In charge of the case is ranking copper, Robert Skinner, who was introduced in Skinner's Rules and remains a tough and resourceful Scot. While steadily ratcheting up the tension, Jardine provides a lot of annual Edinburgh Festival detail-the sites and the sounds, plays and performances, all of which have to be guarded more closely as the body count grows. Skinner's daughter falls for a mystery man, and his deputy falls for a mystery woman, even as the first clue to the terrorists' identity points to an American woman roaming the country, a killer in more ways than one. Although the identity of one murderer is ludicrously easy to spot, and the too-frequent sex scenes tend to feature such lines as "he drank deeply from the well of her passion," Jardine offers spectacularly effective action scenes, and Skinner, while sometimes too hard-boiled to swallow, is an admirable hero.
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Captures Edinburgh, Scotland beautifully.