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AM Nicol

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A man with a violent past is brutally assaulted outside a pub in a tough ‎part of town. JD Ratcliffe, a respectable businessman who has never ‎been in trouble with the police before, is arrested and charged with ‎attempted murder. The victim dies, but the charge remains the same, as ‎there is doubt about what led to the victim's death.‎
Baxter, a criminal lawyer, has moved to Spain after being wrongly ‎charged with two murder charges. Baxter returns from exile to ‎successfully defend Ratcliffe. ‎
Or does he?‎

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Vanguard press Publication date: 28/08/2025 | ISBN:978-1-83794-813-0 | Pages: 370

ABOUT AM NICOL

A M Nicol is a retired lawyer who practiced criminal ‎law in Scotland for forty years. He has written four ‎true crime books, Manuel: Scotland's First Serial ‎Killer, first edition 2008. That became a three-part ‎television drama: In Plain Sight. ‎
The Monster Butler about serial killer Archibald Hall ‎followed in 2011 which was translated and sold in ‎Japan. After that, a book about the only British ‎policeman to be executed for a murder committed ‎whilst on duty in 1950, Liberation followed in 2021. ‎
After that, Sheila Garvie Mastermind or Victim - ‎about a murder trial in Aberdeen High Court in 1968 ‎‎- was published in 2022.‎