| Skinner's Ordeal (Bob Skinner Mysteries) | 
 enlarge | Author: Quintin Jardine
Publisher: Headline
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 119761
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 438
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0747250421
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780747250425
ASIN: 0747250421
Publication Date: February 13, 1997
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 No Ordeal to read this one. January 4, 2008
Bob Skinner is in his 5th adventure. The book gripped me and kept me guessing almost until the very last page. Quite a twist at the end.
Basically Skinner is on his way to give a dressing down to another station in his charge that has underperformed when he hears a radio broadcast in his car over the radio - a plane with 205 soles has come down
over the lammuirhead mountains. A barren farming area in Scotland. He calls his base and tells them he is turning round and going straight to the site. However, the sight when he gets there affects him in more ways than one as he finds his wife there, sealing up the bodies in bags as she is the ME and one of the best in the area. Bob tries to tell her to go home, but she tells him where to go. Then he notices that a vital part of the plane seems to be missing, the nose cone, so goes off to try and locate it and that is when he hears somebody crying. He finds a little boy stuck in the wreckage and goes all out to rescue him. The only survivor and potential witness to the whole horror. In fact the little boy knows a lot more than everybody thinks, he holds the key to the whole business...
 Poorly written and clunky prose. February 16, 2001
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
When a plane explodes over Scotland, killing over 200 people, Edinburgh's ACC wants to know who is responsible. Personally, after the first twenty pages, I couldn't really care less. The book is written in the kind of wooden prose that went out of date with Dorothy L Sayers and Robert Skinner comes across as being one of the least interesting characters of crime fiction in recent years; a supposedly tough guy (though little evidence of this supposed toughness is shown) whose heart is melted by the plight of a little boy, the only survivor of the tragedy (Altogether now, awwwww!). Nor does the sub-Forsyth subplot concerning an arab double agent add anything to the novel. Edinburgh's toughest copy? Come one, DI Rebus could have him for breakfast any time.
A really gripping thriller, with many twists and turns. January 15, 2001
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
The book grips you from the very first page, with a heart wrenching decription of a plane crash. The story develops with emotion and feeling, and leads the reader through a detailed and intricate plot. The characters are well defined and very quickly the reader feels as though Skinner is someone you have known for a long time. An excellent read, and one of the best thrillers in ages.
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