Willie McIntyre: retired lawyer, author of the Robbie Munro (Best Defence) Legal Thrillers, and apprentice woodturner.
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Duty Man, book 2 in the Robbie Munro legal thrillers, is out as an audiobook on 29 October, read by Scottish actor Drew Cain.
Available for pre-order here:
🎧 rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/…
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Is it possible that the @scotgov Justice Minister does not know that drugs policy IS devolved - how else could @scotgov have effectively decriminalised possession of class A drugs in 2021 or set up the ‘safe consumption room’ in Glasgow ??
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Tickets for this year’s festival are now available from Portobello Library! portobellobookfestival.com/2…
This is always a great festival (especially when I’m there) and this year there’s again a wide range of interests covered. Well worth a visit.
The 2026 Portobello Book Festival Programme is now available! 📚🥳💙 portobellobookfestival.com/2…
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New today - The race is on to find a missing child and Lennox and Blackwood have a murder case to solve in Andrew Lowe's creepy procedural, The Vanishing Room - reviewed
crimefictionlover.com/2026/0…
Review by @chrisconnor96
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Sharp-witted Scottish defence lawyer #RobbieMunro tackles a case full of murky secrets in @Best_Defence’s brilliant new legal thriller Illicit Still @EmmaDowson1 @ed_pr pamnorfolkblog.blogspot.com/ Review also @leponline this coming weekend!
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Programmes and tickets for Portobello Book Festival 2026 coming soon! portobellobookfestival.com/2… – at Newcraighall, Scotland
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👀One of the things that’s often overlooked in Scottish crime author William McIntyre’s @Best_Defence books is his fully shaped characters. It’s not just the relentless protagonist Robbie Munroe, either. In Illicit Still, for example, the accused is a romance author, Jilly Jean Lyon – wife of a deceased (we think) whisky baron. Along the way you’ll meet Robbie’s wife, daughter and secretary, and further in his adversaries. They all seem of this world, rather than cutout placeholders, and we can see why some of them get themselves into trouble… especially Robbie, as he tries to investigate Jilly Jean’s case, and keep his daughter safe.
This new legal thriller is on sale tomorrow: link.amazon/B0akKR5zo
A big thanks to @DigbyBrownLLP for the VIP ticket to see John Grisham and Ian Rankin at the McEwan Hall yesterday. Very entertaining, and what a tremendous job @Beathhigh did as interviewer; must have been a pleasant change for him.
Is this true @cbrookmyre re. Black Widow? Though it’s often a case of not knowing what you don’t know, DM me if unsure about Scots law and procedure, even just to check. It’s no problem, I’m helping some other authors in this way.
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The Jonas Flynt series.
A THIEF'S BLOOD and A THIEF'S REVENGE only 99p each in ebook.
Offers end soon!
The first scam email of the day is from the one and only Lionel Shriver. Big fan of the Robbie Munro legal thrillers apparently 🤣 and despite her great writing abilities, uses AI to draft her messages.
I just published Chapter 1 of 'How Not To get Published' medium.com/@whs.mcintyre60/h…
I just started a Substack! You can subscribe to it here bestdefence.substack.com/?r=…
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Remember when @AndrewMarr9, that lefty from the @BBC proudly stated after Labour’s election victory that;
“The adults are back in the room”?
If only @LiamHalligan had been advising @RachelReevesMP and @Keir_Starmer.
A voice of reason and a real adult!
@LBC
@BenKentish
@darrenpjones
@JohnHealey_MP
@jreynoldsMP
@hmtreasury
@andyburnham
@edballs
@sebastiansalek
@maitlis
@Kevin_Maguire
@bankofengland
In my latest book, I introduce what I think is a novel Inheritance Tax dodge, which either amounts to avoidance (legal) or evasion (illegal) so I think could best be described as avoision. bit.ly/3Sh7uD5 #crimefiction
Thanks to @scotgov, writing contemporary Scottish legal thrillers keeps getting harder. The 140 (formely 110) day remand rule now a fiction, whereas a 350pp book once easily accommodated a crime‑to‑verdict plot. Now it needs a bookshelf. bit.ly/4ggx4ju
