Killing The Lawyers

Joe Sixsmith, the black private eye from the industrially challenged town of Luton, England, first appeared in Blood Sympathy. Now Reginald Hill, one of Britain's most regarded mystery novelists, brings his popular P.I. back for a third time. When Joe visits Luton's top law firm for advice on how to handle a car insurance dispute, he receives verbal abuse from one lawyer and physical abuse from another. So after someone starts assaulting the firm's partners, Joe naturally becomes the primary suspect. Meanwhile, he's been hired to find out who is threatening to harm a female athlete if she wins an important New Year's Day race. And while he pieces together both puzzles, Joe is still trying to dodge the machinations of his matchmaking aunt.