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SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUNDEE INTERNATIONAL BOOK PRIZE 2012
Follow the trials and tribulations of Scots criminal lawyer Robbie Munro as he heads up his fledgling law firm in the Royal Burgh of Linlithgow. Assisted by a keen, if inconveniently ethical, legal trainee and a formidable secretary, Robbie joins battle in the fight for truth and justice - hoping truth and justice don't win too often because it's terribly bad for business.
Relatively Guilty.
Credit may be crunching all around but crime is booming and to add to a busy caseload come instructions in a homicide. A policeman with a caved-in skull, his young wife found clutching the blood-stained murder weapon; it all looks pretty open and shut until Robbie detects the faint whiff of a defence and closes in on a witness who might cast a precious doubt on proceedings.
So why is it, the nearer he gets to the truth and a possible acquittal, that Robbie's murder client becomes more and more eager to opt for a life sentence?
In the midst of these hectic trial preparations, complications arise in Robbie's personal life when his brother, a soccer nearly-legend, carelessly kills the daughter of a Glasgow gangster and Robbie finds himself in the dock on a counterfeiting charge that looks set to end his career in the law.
If only his life were as simple as that of the folk of the Vendee where Robbie's search for the elusive witness takes him and where, on the salt marshes of the Loire estuary, he hears the tale of the mythical Twinfish that suddenly makes everything seem a whole lot clearer.
90,000 words (approx. 360 pages).
Also available on Kindle, #2 and #3 in the series: "Duty Man and "Sharp Practice".
About the author:
Willie McIntyre is a partner in Scotland's oldest Law Firm.For the past twenty years or so he has worked in the field of criminal defence and has managed during that time and with the full co-operation of Mrs McIntyre, to produce four sons and a series of stories featuring defence lawyer, Robbie Munro.
Each novel exploits the kind of authentic court-room, prison and procedural details that stem from years of first-hand experience. The action is centred around Willie's birthplace, the Royal Burgh of Linlithgow in West Lothian, but takes place all over the Larger Central Belt of Scotland.
Follow the trials and tribulations of Scots criminal lawyer Robbie Munro as he heads up his fledgling law firm in the Royal Burgh of Linlithgow. Assisted by a keen, if inconveniently ethical, legal trainee and a formidable secretary, Robbie joins battle in the fight for truth and justice - hoping truth and justice don't win too often because it's terribly bad for business.
Relatively Guilty.
Credit may be crunching all around but crime is booming and to add to a busy caseload come instructions in a homicide. A policeman with a caved-in skull, his young wife found clutching the blood-stained murder weapon; it all looks pretty open and shut until Robbie detects the faint whiff of a defence and closes in on a witness who might cast a precious doubt on proceedings.
So why is it, the nearer he gets to the truth and a possible acquittal, that Robbie's murder client becomes more and more eager to opt for a life sentence?
In the midst of these hectic trial preparations, complications arise in Robbie's personal life when his brother, a soccer nearly-legend, carelessly kills the daughter of a Glasgow gangster and Robbie finds himself in the dock on a counterfeiting charge that looks set to end his career in the law.
If only his life were as simple as that of the folk of the Vendee where Robbie's search for the elusive witness takes him and where, on the salt marshes of the Loire estuary, he hears the tale of the mythical Twinfish that suddenly makes everything seem a whole lot clearer.
90,000 words (approx. 360 pages).
Also available on Kindle, #2 and #3 in the series: "Duty Man and "Sharp Practice".
About the author:
Willie McIntyre is a partner in Scotland's oldest Law Firm.For the past twenty years or so he has worked in the field of criminal defence and has managed during that time and with the full co-operation of Mrs McIntyre, to produce four sons and a series of stories featuring defence lawyer, Robbie Munro.
Each novel exploits the kind of authentic court-room, prison and procedural details that stem from years of first-hand experience. The action is centred around Willie's birthplace, the Royal Burgh of Linlithgow in West Lothian, but takes place all over the Larger Central Belt of Scotland.
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