Killing the Lawyers: A Joe Sixsmith Novel - Softcover

Hill, Reginald

3.78

325 ratings by Goodreads

9780006499015: Killing the Lawyers: A Joe Sixsmith Novel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006499015 ISBN 13: 9780006499015

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1998

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‘Killing the Lawyers...is entertaining, sly, jokey...cynical, well written, and teems with sparkly dialogue – all the virtues we expect from Hill’ Marcel Berlins The Times

Joe Sixsmith, Luton’s premier PI, is naturally on the side of the Law... Trouble is, the Law isn’t always ready to return the compliment.

When Joe turns to the town’s 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 he’s getting close when someone starts trying to kill him...

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‘The Sixsmith series has a buoyancy and delectability of its own’
Independent

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When Joe Sixsmith, Luton's premier PI, turns to the town's top law firm for help in a motor insurance dispute, he gets assaulted verbally by one partner and physically by another, and, vowing vengeance, walks out. So when someone starts whacking the partners one by one it's hardly surprising that Joe is elected the man most likely.

At the same time he is trying to find out who is threatening all kinds of nastiness against top athlete Zak Oto if she wins her New Year's Day race to celebrate the opening of Luton's splendid new Pleasure Dome. Everybody looks suspicious, from her ex-con minder Starbright Jones, through her trainers, past and present, to her own family. And the only reassurance Joe has that he's getting warm is when someone starts trying to kill him!

"Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction"
TOM HINEY, 'Observer'

"The Sixsmith series has a buoyancy and delectability of its own"
PATRICIA CRAIG, 'Independent'

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