Ultra-tough Scottish reporter faces-off with the Tory Forces of
Darkness seeking to frame a wee gang of virtuous housebreakers-in
the never-ending English conspiracy against the land of oats and
haggis. After Nicole Carrow, fledgling lawyer lassie, does battle
with one of Glasgow's toughest welfare grannies, Brookmyre (Not the
End of the World, 2001, etc.) saddles her with a seemingly
impossible case. Blubbering from her humiliation at the hands of
the grannie, Nicole is handed a hanky by next customer Tam McInnes,
a thoroughly sweet fellow who dries her tears and gives her an
envelope with directions to leave the enclosed documents unread
unless he fails to claim them in a week. Tam, an old client of the
law firm from his days as one of the Robbin' Hoods, a gang of
kindly burglars-laid-off industrial workers turned
castle-breakers-seems to have violated his parole in the most
spectacular fashion. Along with one of his sticky-fingered
cohorts-his son Paul, and Paul's geeky technowhiz chum Spammy-Tam
has been caught blood-spattered and otherwise red-handed at the
palatial scene of the brutal murder of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Voss and
their two unfortunate and unhelpful bodyguards. That there could be
no less likely throat-slitters in all Scotland than Tam et al., or
that Roland Voss was a publishing pirate who made Rupert Murdoch
look like a softy, doesn't interest the authorities, who are
whipping up interest in a revival of the death penalty. To the
rescue comes Jack Parlabane, freelance reporter and defender of the
Left. The late Mr. Voss tried once to frame Jack and send him to
the slammer, but he hadn't reckoned on Parlabane's eerie
prescience. Parlabane is only too glad to step into Nicole's case
and uncover the plot-which must involve the archvillains of the
Major government-although he will have to be careful not to worry
his new fiancee, a beautiful physician. Screechy politics drag down
an otherwise amiable crime farce. (Kirkus Reviews)
The murder of a media moghul in his country mansion appears to be the result of him disturbing a gang of would-be thieves. The robbers are swiftly caught, but when they are unexpectedly moved to a different prison they escape. Back in Edinburgh, a young solicitor reveals to the press that one of the subjects had left a letter with her some time before the break-in which proves his innocence. Jack Parlabane, journo-extraordinaire, is intrigued, but when he approaches the lawyer he
discovers someone else is trying to get near her - someone with evil intent, political connections of the highest order and a corrupt agenda. Fast-moving, blackly humorous and intriguingly credible.
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