The Robbie Munro Legal Thrillers
Follow the trials of Scots criminal lawyer Robbie Munro as he 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.
Free@Last TV, the producers of Agatha Raisin, have acquired the TV rights to the Robbie Munro Series.
Illicit Still
#16 in the Robbie Munro Thriller series
Justice has never been so intoxicating
When a whisky entrepreneur is poisoned and his novelist wife accused of murder, criminal defence lawyer Robbie Munro is dragged into a case steeped in secrets. With his ex-cop father poking around the victim’s distillery, and a vengeful former client threatening his daughter, Robbie’s facing danger from every direction.
But a missing forty-year-old single malt and a twist courtesy of an Aruba holiday may hold the key - if Robbie can piece it together in time…
Sometimes the truth is hard to swallow.
The Books
William McIntyre
True(ish) tales from the frontline
I'm a Scots lawyer. In fact, I have been a criminal defence lawyer for so long, I can just about remember the last time the legal aid rates were increased and the days when I could lift a copy of the Criminal Procedure Act off the desk without putting my back out.
I have tried to make the Robbie Munro Series as realistic as possible, borrowing on my many years in law and the characters and cases I have encountered along the way. Sometimes I've had to curb the realism because occasionally fact is stranger than fiction; however, I present Robbie Munro as a real life lawyer with real cases and, like all criminal lawyers in Scotland, and, I suspect, around the world, it's pretty much non-stop - having to be in two places at the same time, dealing with crazy clients and trying to make enough to pay the staff while sorting out family problems and keeping a roof over your head at the same time.
The Robbie Munro books are fast-paced, hopefully humorous and, as one kind reviewer put it, "complicated but never confusing." I hope you enjoy them. and, if you do, I'd love to hear from you.
Reviews
"A deft slice of Caledonian crime... rings viscerally true, thanks no doubt to McIntyre's lifelong experience in criminal law."
The Times
"Page-turning... a fresh take for the Tartan Noir scene."
The Scotsman
"McIntyre's outstanding third mystery featuring Scottish defence counsel Robbie Munro perfectly blends humor and investigation. Readers will want to see a lot more of the endearing Robbie."
Publishers Weekly
"A Scottish crime thriller with a great lead in lawyer Robbie Munro and a cast of reprobates to keep you guessing, laughing and on the edge of your seat - a cracking read."
Gregor Fisher
"Take a large measure of Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn in Adam's Rib, add a plot that would knock John Grisham for six, season with a picaresque cast of supporting characters, garnish with one-liners that Frankie Boyle would kill for and you have a recipe for a page-turner of the highest quality. Good News, Bad News is the latest in real-life lawyer William McIntyre's 'Robbie Munro' novels, and If I was a commissioning editor for one of our TV companies, I'd snap up the rights double quick. I've no doubt they could easily become the most popular crime series since Taggart."
Alex Norton
"Page-turning read, all helped by a clear and crisp writing style. The depiction of the criminal justice system from the perspective of the legal personnel, rather than cops or criminals, is a fresh take for the Tartan Noir scene and I look forward to seeing where McIntyre takes Robbie next."
Louise Fairbairn, The Scotsman
"McIntyre writes snappy prose and there are light-hearted nods to the hard-boiled classics of the genre."
The Herald