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If Skinner has a weakness it is, as one character points out, that he's a serial marrier. His first wife died and then his second marriage ended in divorce with his ex-wife going back to the USA. Skinner then married a prominent politician and the realtionship seemed steady if not earth-shattering until his wife expected him to fall in with her proposed legislation for a unified Scottish police force despite knowing that it was completely against his pronciples. This isn't a rift in the marriage - it's the Grand Canyon running through it. Add to that the fact that his ex-wife, Dr Sarah Grace, has returned to Edinburgh and she and Skinner have to keep a professional relationship going and a reasonable face on their private relationship for the sake of their children. It's not easy for Skinner.
It's many, many years since I last read a Bob Skinner book and the characters were but a faint memory, so you could say that I read this as a stand alone and it worked suprisingly well. There's just enough information given about characters to suggest the nature of their back story but not so much that established readers are going to feel patronised. I'm seriously tempted to go back an and pick up some of the earlier books - but I am desperate to know when the next book in the series is published. I wouldn't ''exactly'' call the ending a cliff hanger - but it does leave at least one very open question.
I'd like to thank the publishers for sending a copy to the Bookbag.
You can't think of Edinburgh and detective fiction without thinking of [[Ian Rankin's Inspector John Rebus novels in chronological order|Rebus]], but there are other detectives there. You might like to ty [[The Road to Hell: An Alice Rice Mystery by Gillian Galbraith]].
