William McIntyre (novelist)

William H. S. McIntyre (born 25 March 1960) is a Scottish novelist whose novels mix comedy, legal procedure, social comment and action. His debut novel was Relatively Guilty^[1] and subsequent works have included Duty Man and Sharp Practice. He is a lawyer working in criminal defence.

William H. S. McIntyre
Author William McIntyre speaking at a BookCrossing Convention, Falkirk June 2023
Born	(1960-03-25) 25 March 1960 (age 65) Linlithgow, Scotland
Occupation	Novelist, criminal defence lawyer
Nationality	British
Genre	Crime Fiction, Thrillers
Subject	Criminal Defence
Spouse	Gillian McIntyre
Website
www.bestdefence.biz

Biography

McIntyre was born in Linlithgow attending Linlithgow Primary School and Linlithgow Academy. He studied law at the University of Edinburgh. He has been a partner of Russel + Aitken LLP since 1988.

McIntyre is married and has four sons.^[2] He writes in his spare time, blogs^[3] for the Scottish Legal News and coaches East Stirlingshire F.C.'s 1999 youth (under 16) football team.

Bibliography

Fiction

• Relatively Guilty (2012), (Best Defence Ltd) ISBN 978-1456521707
• Duty Man (2012), (Best Defence Ltd)
• Sharp Practice (2013) (Best Defence Ltd)
• Killer Contract (2013) (Best Defence Ltd)
• Crime Fiction (2014) (Best Defence Ltd)
• Last Will (2015) (Sandstone Press)
• Present Tense (2016) (Sandstone Press)
• Good News Bad News (2017) (Sandstone Press)
• Stitch Up (16 August 2018) (Sandstone Press)
• Fixed Odds (4 July 2019) (Sandstone Press)
• Bad Debt (22 October 2020) (Sandstone Press)
• Best Defence (1 January 2022) (Amazon Publishing)
• How Come? (15 June 2023) (Amazon Publishing)

Nonfiction

• Alex Munro's Whisky Tour

Written by McIntyre's alter ego, a character from the fictional Best Defence Series, this is a guide to some of the best and most readily available Scots single malt whiskies.

Recurring characters

Some of the recurring characters in the Best Defence series are listed below:

• Robbie Munro, a Scots criminal defence lawyer
• Alex Munro, Robbie's father, ex-police officer, disapproving of his son's profession
• Malky Munro, Robbie's elder brother, former football legend and apple of his father's eye
• Grace-Mary, Robbie's long suffering secretary.
• Jake Turpie, Robbie's landlord and well known local crook.
• Sheriff Albert Brechin, A judge with few doubts, and even fewer reasonable ones
• Fiona Faye Q.C., Robbie's first choice Silk, .
• Cameron Crowe Q.C. Advocate depute, 'Nosferatu in Pinstripes'
• Sandy, Café owner and purveyor of West Lothian's finest bacon roll
• Jill Green, breaker of Robbie's heart
• Andy Ingram, Robbie's annoyingly ethical legal assistant
• Joanna Jordon, Robbie's new legal assistant
• Tina Munro, Robbie's surprise offspring

Award nomination

• Relatively Guilty was shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize 2012.^[4]
• Bad Debt was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2021.^[5]