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Quintin Jardine

Crime writer Quintin Jardine, creator of the Edinburgh-based Bob Skinner novels, tells Stuart Cosgrove why killing off lawyers is popular with his readers.

In this series Stuart Cosgrove meets guests from the literary world and beyond to hear about the five very special books in their lives.

Quintin Jardine has built up a huge following for his crime novels featuring the fictional Edinburgh policeman Bob Skinner. From Skinner's Rules in 1993 the series now runs to 19 books.

Quintin himself has had a varied career including spells as a journalist and a political spin doctor.

Talking to Stuart he chooses five titles that he's found influential including the book that convinced him that he could do better and launched him on his own writing career.

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Thu 7 Feb 2019 00:30

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