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In 'Secrets and Lies', DCI Lottie Mann is tasked with finding the killer of her former boss, an investigation that draws Bob Skinner into its web, just as a second mystery develops for him in his new Spanish base.

Bob Skinner is back and although he is no longer a full time police officer, he mentors members of the current force and through this becomes involved in a brutal double murder of a current and ex member of the force. As the investigation unfolds and the body count increases, eve...

Nine years ago, divorcee Marcia Brown took her own life. A pillar of the community, she had been accused of theft, and it's assumed that she was unable to live with the shame. Now her former husband wants the case reopened. Marcia was framed, he says, to prevent her exposing a sc...

Sir Robert Skinner's stock is rising -- after retiring from the police service he's been promoted to head an international media organisation. Yet a series of unexplained deaths on his home turf in Scotland threaten to bring him crashing back down to earth. As Skinner helps the e...

Amidst a family celebration, a cataclysmic storm uncovers long-buried horrors - and a team of detectives struggle to solve a thirty-year-old double murder. The police are also searching two countries for traces of a mysterious crime novelist who appears to have vanished. Has the ...

On a sunny seaside August morning, a woman on maternity leave spots a body wedged in rocks on a Scottish beach. Gavin Ayre's riding gear sparks the assumption that he had been thrown by a panicked horse ... until an autopsy reveals this was no accident. Soon it becomes clear that...

Primavera Blackstone is enjoying the quiet life in an idyllic village on the Catalan coast of Spain. The attractive single mother and eight-year-old Tom, son of the late and still lamented Oz Blackstone, are popular figures in the tiny community. But her close friendship with the...

The body of a murdered woman is found washed up on Cramond Island near the mouth of the River Forth. Days later detectives are called to a flat in Edinburgh; the kitchen is covered in blood, and the occupier is missing. When the name of the woman from Cramond Island is revealed, ...

In Edinburgh, Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner has his hands full with an MI5 operation against Albanian gangsters, the murdered son of a police officer and Scotland's First Minister's unwelcome attempt to take over the police force.

It's the Fiesta de San Juan in Spain, a celebration of the Summer Solstice, and there's much excitement about a huge firework display. But Primavera Blackstone is more inflamed by the appearance of a mysterious writer, Duncan Culshaw, who is determined to rake through the ashes o...

Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner investigates the murder of two young female artists.

Detective Chief Constable Bob Skinner is involved in security for the Pope, but he must find out if there's a connection between the unusual deaths that are happening and the important visit.

When millionaire Leo Speight is found poisoned at his Ayrshire mansion, Police Scotland has a tough case on its hands. Speight was a champion boxer with national hero status, and a long list of lovers and friends stand to benefit from his estate. Did one of them decide to speed t...

"Former Chief Constable Bob Skinner may have left the police service, but he's never far from a case. When his old mentor on the force, Jimmy Proud, finds himself in a desperate situation, Skinner gets pulled into a murder investigation that's been closed for thirty years. The Bo...