Quintin Jardine

Oz Blackstone didn't go looking for fame - it jumped out of an alleyway and mugged him with a fistful of high denomination notes. When he recovered, he found that he was a movie star, married to a successful businesswoman and about to leap into the...

When Private Enquiry Agent Oz Blackstone opens the door of the flat in Ebeneezer Street, the sight that greets him isn’t quite what he’s looking for.Diminutive stockbroker Willie Kane – reclining on the bed with a large knife still embedded in him –...

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. His soulmate Primavera Phillips took their young son Tom back to the Spanish...

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...

1818, Carluke, Lancashire. Mathew Fleming returns home to Scotland following heroic service at the Battle of Waterloo. After seven years away, he is a ghostly presence to those he left behind. But Mathew is ambitious and soon becomes a man of...

When Oz Blackstone is offered a major rôle in a cop movie shooting in Edinburgh, he cannot resist. The self-professed “luckiest man on the planet” sees himself heading for stardom and wealth, but his marriage to Primavera is on the rocks. On the other...

For Oz Blackstone, his days as a Private Enquiry Agent could soon be over. An undercover stint as a TV wrestling master of ceremonies has convinced him that he may have hidden theatrical talent – and now he's got a taste for the spotlight. So, the...

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, nonsensically, as spin doctors, and without whispers against those who were...

Born to Be Wild began with the death of Oz Blackstone, movie hero and idol of millions, and tells how it might not have happened. The Last Chickenpig carries on the yarn as seventeen-year-old Tom, Oz's son with his soul-mate Primavera Phillips, goes...

Oz Blackstone is enjoying the success of his latest smash hit movie. He's moving into a big country house near Loch Lomond with his gorgeous wife Susie Gantry who has twice been named Scottish Businesswoman of the Year. But their dream lifestyle is...