Killing the Lawyers (Joe Sixsmith, Book 3)
By (Author) Reginald Hill
Book 3
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
29th July 2010
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives
Thriller / suspense fiction
Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
823.914
Paperback
288
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 18mm
200g
Killing the Lawyersis entertaining, sly, jokeycynical, well written, and teems with sparkly dialogue all the virtues we expect from Hill Marcel Berlins The Times
Joe Sixsmith, Lutons premier PI, is naturally on the side of the Law Trouble is, the Law isnt always ready to return the compliment.
When Joe turns to the towns top law firm for help in a dispute, he is subjected to nothing but abuse. He walks out, vowing to have vengeance. Then someone starts killing the partners one by one, and Joe is the main suspect.
At the same time as facing murder charges, Joe is trying to discover who is threatening top athlete Zak Oto. Everyone looks suspicious, from her ex-con minder, Starbright Jones, to her own family. But Joe knows hes getting close when someone starts trying to kill him
The Sixsmith series has a buoyancy and delectability of its own
Independent
Reginald Hill was brought up in Cumbria, and has returned there after many years in Yorkshire. With his first crime novel, A Clubbable Woman, he was hailed as the crime novels best hope and thirty years on he has more than fulfilled that prophecy.