Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) Synopsis

Jack Irish, criminal lawyer at Greer-Irish, is set adrift after a former client murders his wife, Isabel. Disenchanted with the dregs he was called to represent, Irish takes up alternate activities and avocations. By day, Irish visits his favorite relics at Prince of Prussia; many nights see Irish with an elderly neighbor learning how to handcraft wood furniture. Irish and two pals buy a racehorse and Irish begins skip tracing and doing more hands-on forms of debt collection. An old client tries to telephone Irish and turns up dead; Irish meets a cool blonde journalist who helps him solve this and a few other mysteries that present.—LA-Lawyer

Jack Irish, criminal lawyer at Greer-Irish, is set adrift after a former client murders his wife, Isabel. Disenchanted with the dregs he was called to represent, Irish takes up alternate activities and avocations. By day, Irish visits his favorite relics at Prince of Prussia; many nights see Irish with an elderly neighbor learning how to handcraft wood furniture. Irish and two pals buy a racehorse and Irish begins skip tracing and doing more hands-on forms of debt collection. An old client tries to telephone Irish and turns up dead; Irish meets a cool blonde journalist who helps him solve this and a few other mysteries that present.—LA-Lawyer

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