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#4 in the Best Defence/Robbie Series
When Robbie Munro lands the biggest case of his life, defending flamboyant entrepreneur, Larry Kirkslap, he finds himself the subject of an assassin's contract - he just doesn't know why.
Murdered call girls, violated sepulchres and a marriage proposal all keep Robbie busy, while he tries to stay alive - and arrange a surprise birthday party for his dad. Scotland’s favourite criminal defence lawyer, Robbie Munro, is back and under pressure to find a missing child, defend a murdering drug-dealer and save the career of a child-pornography-possessing local doctor.
Add to that the antics of his badly-behaving ex-cop dad, the re-kindling of an old flame and a run-in with Scotland’s Justice Secretary and you’ll discover why it is that, sometimes, a lawyer has to resort to Sharp Practice.
The Best Defence series:
Relatively Guilty
Duty Man
Sharp Practice
Killer Contract
Crime Fiction
Last Will
Present Tense
Good News Bad News
Stitch Up
Fixed Odds
Bad Debt
Best Defence
How Come?
No Problem
Publisher : Best Defence Limited (February 18, 2013)
Language : English
Paperback : 360 pages
ISBN-10 : 1999813308
ISBN-13 : 978-1999813307
Reading age : 12 - 18 years
Item Weight : 14.7 ounces
Dimensions : 5.25 x 0.9 x 8 inches
Reviewer: Sandie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Another winner
Review: I think that this is my favourite Robbie Munro book so far. The funny one liners had me laughing out loud and there was enough suspense to have me clicking the pages with baited breath.I am now wondering will she or wont she marry him - he certainly needs a good woman to help him organise his life.This book had everything - a really good legal thriller but with such a human side to it. My only problem is that now I have caught up with all the Robbie Munro books, how long have I to wait for the next one?
Reviewer: bluenoser (Zal D)
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: another fun ride
Review: i have read all four in this legal thriller series and enjoyed each one. they are light but they are all very entertaining. the characters are as real as can be as is the dialogue. i heartily recommend this very under-discovered author of this series esp for an excellent price and look forward to the next installment.
Reviewer: Tool Junky
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Can't wait for the next book!
Review: Loved this whole series! I can't wait for the 6 the book in the series...
Reviewer: Venta
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I find myself currently, genuinely gutted that I've now finished book no. 4 starring Robbie Munroe et al. As a previous reviewer mentioned, these characters have become real to me, and I'm missing them already!The fact that Mr McIntyre hasn't yet got a publisher is a complete mystery to me. Over my many years of voracious reading, I've had the misfortune on occasion of having to endure some really tedious dross that HAS been published, widely advertised and acclaimed, but my review for some of them would be - meh.These 4 books on the other hand have kept me hugely entertained and left me wanting more - soon!The plots are solid, with the court & legal procedures having a genuine feel about them; but the real plus here is characterisation. Robbie Munroe is a poor defence lawyer always on the lookout for ways to boost his paltry legal aid income. The interactions between him, his dad, brother, and others very much play their parts in these tales, but it is the witty humour with which the stories are told that kept me reading - and chuckling.I love them and will be recommending them to everyone I know - can I suggest we all do the same? I don't know how publishers decide what is and isn't publishable, but they've got it very wrong here. Again echoing a previous review - these stories and characters would make great tv so perhaps if the publishers lack vision, there's scope for a tv coup here eh?
Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I am really enjoying William McIntyre's Best Defence books. They are a great read and I like the amusing characters.
Reviewer: Liz Davies
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Having very much enjoyed the first three in the Best Defence series I was pleased to find Killer Contact on the Kindle list. It's the fourth outing for Robbie Munro, Scotland's premier defence lawyer and the mix is the similar to the other three books. There are many of the same characters, now feeling like old friends, and a few new ones. As in the previous books Robbie is defending several apparently unrelated cases all requiring the Munro magic touch.Wealthy Larry Kirkslap finds himself charged with the murder of a former girlfriend even though her body has not been found and Robbie is determined to take on this major local case by fair means or foul. Two teenage brothers are charged with breaking into a mausoleum; Robbie takes on the defence of one of them who is then found murdered and his brother is the immediate suspect. To complicate matters Robbie finds himself pursued by a contract killer and, most taxing of all, trying to arrange a 'surprise' birthday party for his Dad.The murders take place around the end of October or early November 2012 and I found that I was reading about them on the same dates. The trial of Larry Kirkslap takes place in April 2013, so it hasn't happened yet! Spooky!Like the previous books in the Best Defence series I found Killer Contract a great read. The legal background feels authentic and the plot zipped along with many twists and turns keeping me guessing to the end.7 November 2012
Reviewer: G A Parsell
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This is one of the highly entertaining and ingeniously plotted legal/crime thrillers in the Best Defence series. The central character is an over-worked, under-remunerated criminal defence lawyer called Robbie Munro, whose clients rely on the Scottish Legal Aid system to pay him and whose private life is as fast-moving and unpredictable as the alibis and other versions of the truth that he puts forward to the police and in the courts. Witty and full of fascinating insights into the human realities of the criminal justice system, these books can rightly be ranked alongside Horace Rumpole, Philip Marlowe and John Rebus on the fiction shelves.
Reviewer: Georgezim
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: As ever a tangled web that you are left to untangle. The characters all run true if frustrating at times by the hero never defending himself with the whys and wherefores. An enjoyable and intriguing escapade nevertheless.