Quintin Jardine

Oz Blackstone, enormously wealthy screen hero and sleuth, dies of a ruptured aorta. Her mind still filled with thoughts of her dead ex-husband, Primavera Blackstone is in Spain with their son Tom....

Primavera is enjoying the quiet life in an idyllic village on the Catalan coast of Spain. But her close friendship with the parish priest has eyebrows rising and tongues wagging....

Primavera Blackstone has found contentment in a small Spanish village by the sea....

1818, Carluke, Lanarkshire. Mathew Fleming returns home to Scotland following heroic service at the Battle of Waterloo....

Newly married to his childhood sweetheart and happily settled in Glasgow, private enquiry agent Oz Blackstone is looking for some excitement....

It's the Fiesta de San Juan in Spain, the national celebration of the Summer Solstice, and there's much excitement about a huge firework display in the village of St Marti....

Brought up by his hard-nosed father and ferocious Spanish grandmother....

The body of a murdered woman is found washed up on Cramond Island near the mouth of the River Forth....

With a gang of ruthless killers at large, it's down to Skinner to piece together a puzzle of sinister complexity....

When Primavera Blackstone's best friend, Shirley, introduces her new man, Patterson Cowling, he seems to be a magnet for trouble....

The killing was an expert hit. Three shots through the head, as the lights dimmed at a celebrity concert in Glasgow....

When Oz Blackstone is offered a major role in a cop movie shooting in Edinburgh, he cannot resist....

Oz Blackstone is enjoying the success of his latest smash-hit movie.....

After a tip-off, a man's body is exhumed from a shallow grave in Edinburgh....

Born to Be Wild began with the death of Oz Blackstone, movie hero and idol of millions. The Last Chickenpig carries on the yarn as 17-year-old Tom, Oz's son, goes in search of the father he mourns....

Ten years ago Oz Blackstone, movie icon, died tragically while filming in remote Guatemala; mourned by millions, his story came to an end, and his secrets died with him....

Once upon a time in what was then reasonably Great Britain, there was a world in which the not too serious business of politics was practised without those people known today....

Every August thousands of tourists and performers flood into Edinburgh for its famous festival....

The world of books is focused on Charlotte Square Gardens, so it's a considerable embarrassment when a crime writer and key member of the Scottish Parliament is found dead....

The opening of an elite country club, marked by a prestigious golf tournament, turns to chaos when a man is found dead in the clubhouse jacuzzi....