Philip R. Craig, Author, William G. Tapply, Author . Scribner $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6067-1
Boston lawyer Brady Coyne and retired cop J.W. Jackson uncover more mischief on the tourist-mecca island of Martha's Vineyard in Craig and Tapply's second collaborative outing (after 2002's First Light
). Coyne traces a runaway teenage...
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Philip R. Craig, Author, William G. Tapply, Author . Scribner $24 (323p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3256-9
Two fine mystery writers team up for the third and last time (after Second Sight and First Light), with their series heroes swapping chapters and stories seamlessly. Tapply’s Boston lawyer, Brady Coyne, responds to an anguished call for help...
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William G. Tapply, Author Poisoned Pen Press $16.95 (187p) ISBN 978-1-59058-115-5
Anyone who cares about the craft of writing will welcome William G. Tapply's The Elements of Mystery Fiction: Writing the Modern Whodunit, a revised and expanded edition of his 1995 classic. The creator of the Brady Coyne series offers sound...
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William G. Tapply, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-20563-8
Readers will find Tapply's 16th novel featuring attorney-sleuth Brady Coyne a pleasure, but they will have to forgive Coyne if he's holding a grievance. For Coyne's client, former pro-basketball player and long-time drinking buddy Mick Fallon, not...
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William G. Tapply, Author Lyons Press $25 (290p) ISBN 978-1-55821-544-3
Best known to the general public as the author of 14 Brady Coyne mystery novels, Tapply (Sportsman's Legacy) is familiar to anglers through his articles for Field & Stream and Fly Fisherman. Here he has collected 25 such essays about his fishing...
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William G. Tapply, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14567-5
In his reliable, rewarding series featuring middle-aged Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, Tapply combines intelligent plotting with consistent, fully dimensional characterization and prose that flows as easily as the trout streams Coyne loves to fish. In...
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William G. Tapply, Author Otto Penzler Books $20 (273p) ISBN 978-1-883402-04-4
In the 13th, and best yet, Brady Coyne mystery, the affable Boston lawyer investigates a case with roots in Vietnam and implications reaching to the highest levels of government. Daniel McCloud, a Vietnam vet suffering from exposure to Agent Orange,
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William G. Tapply, Author Lyons and Burford Publishers $18.95 (155p) ISBN 978-1-55821-161-2
The true angler knows the mysterious bond with his or her own ``home water'' referred to in Tapply's title. Indeed, most have probably had (for better and for worse) days on a stream nearly identical to any of the 11 trips described here....
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William G. Tapply, Author Delacorte Press $18 (277p) ISBN 978-0-385-30234-0
Lawyer of choice to wealthy Bostonians, Brady Coyne avoids the term attorney for the pretensions it suggests. But at the behest of his old friend Susan Ames, descendant of an eminent family who have occupied the same Concord house since 1748, he...
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William G. Tapply, Author Delacorte Press $17.95 (241p) ISBN 978-0-385-30233-3
Tapply toys with but never fully explores the metaphor of the hunter and the hunted in lawyer/sleuth Brady Coyne's 10th outing. Professional hunter Jeff Newton has lived as an embittered and near-friendless invalid since being attacked by a wounded...
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William G. Tapply, Author Delacorte Press $16.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-385-29903-9
This is the ninth in Tapply's solidly appealing series, related by Boston attorney Brady Coyne. Acting on behalf of his client and best friend, Judge Popowski (Pops), Coyne meets a TV reporter, Wayne Churchill, who threatens the judge's virtually...
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William G. Tapply, Author Lyons and Burford Publishers $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55821-071-4
To the author, trout fishing is an obsession; fishing for other species is recreation. Tapply, a contributing editor of Field and Stream and creator of the Brady Coyne mystery novels, offers an entertaining collection of pieces about his favorite...
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William G. Tapply, Author Scribner Book Company $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-18793-8
Fans of Brady Coyne will be rewarded once again by the seventh adventure of the Boston lawyer-sleuth. This time Brady is consulted by private eye Les Katz, who was hired by a woman who suspected her husband of having an affair. Katz took...
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William G. Tapply, Author Scribner Book Company $0 (208p) ISBN 978-0-684-18776-1
Tapply is wholly committed to fishing and hunting as a normal adjunct to living; since his childhood, he has hunted birds in the woods and fished in the rivers and ponds of New England. In these low-key essays, previously published in sporting...
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William G. Tapply, Author Minotaur Books $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-26679-0
You can always rely on Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, as shown in this outstanding whodunit, the 17th in this underappreciated series from suspense master Tapply (Cutter's Run, etc.). When Brian, the 15-year-old son and only child of Jake and Sharon...
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William G. Tapply, Author Otto Penzler Books $20.5 (234p) ISBN 978-1-883402-99-0
Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, last seen in The Snake Eater, offers to put up his old friend, TV-show environmentalist and sportsman Walt Kinnick, for the night, little suspecting he'll be drawn into a fast-paced mystery surrounding an emotional...
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William G. Tapply, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-28442-8
Brady Coyne is appealing and modest—both qualities that apply to this somewhat insubstantial mystery, Tapply's 18th to feature the Boston attorney (after 2000's Scar Tissue). He and girlfriend Evie Banyon are off to Cape Cod for a...
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William G. Tapply, Skyhorse (Norton, dist.), $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-60239-990-7
A nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court will stop at nothing to hide a dirty secret in this finely crafted thriller from Tapply (1940–2009). While serving in Vietnam, where he won a Bronze Star and lost an eye, future Massachusetts judge Thomas...
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William G. Tapply, Minotaur, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-53127-0
Family secrets and emotional hangups dominate the comfortably satisfying 25th and final Brady Coyne novel from Tapply (1940–2009). When Sharon Nichols finds her veterinarian ex-husband, Ken, stabbed to death in a suburban Boston hotel room, she...
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William G. Tapply, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (277p) ISBN 978-0-312-37978-0
Stoney Calhoun goes undercover in Tapply's diverting third mystery to feature the Portland, Maine, bait shop owner who lost his memory in a lightning strike years before (after 2007's Gray Ghost
). Despite this tragedy, Stoney retains the...
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William G. Tapply, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-35830-3
After two dozen adventures (One-Way Ticket
, etc.), Tapply’s Brady Coyne, a refreshingly decent lawyer, remains a pleasure to see at work. After a seven-year absence from Brady’s life, Alexandria Shaw, a former lover, walks into his...
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William G. Tapply, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur $23.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-312-35829-7
Boston attorney Brady Coyne, a principled man in an often unprincipled profession, remains as fresh and appealing as ever in his 23rd outing (after 2006’s Out Cold
). Brady is enjoying an evening at home in his Beacon Hill townhouse watching...
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William G. Tapply, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (257p) ISBN 978-0-312-36303-1
The pleasures of the outdoors lift the second Stoney Calhoun novel
\t\t (after 2004's Bitch Creek) from Tapply, best
\t\t known for his many mysteries about Boston lawyer Brady Coyne (Out Cold, etc.). Stoney, who lost
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William G. Tapply, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-312-33746-9
At the start of Tapply's entertaining 22nd Brady Coyne novel (after 2005's Nervous Water
), the Boston lawyer's dog uncovers a pregnant teenager dying in his snow-covered backyard. After the coroner finds Brady's Beacon Hill address...
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William G. Tapply, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-312-33744-5
Boston lawyer Brady Coyne tackles family troubles past and present in his compelling if slightly wordy 21st solo outing (after 2003's Shadow of Death
). Coyne agrees to help his Uncle Moze, an aging Maine lobsterman, find Moze's daughter,...
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William G. Tapply, Author . Lyons $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59228-435-1
The reliable Tapply introduces a new series with a real page-turner set in rural Maine. Stoney Calhoun, "a man without a history," lost his memory in a lightning strike five years earlier. Soon after the accident, Stoney left a rehab...
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William G. Tapply, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (321p) ISBN 978-0-312-30377-8
In Tapply's 20th literate and engaging Brady Coyne mystery (after 2002's A Fine Line), the divorced Boston attorney, at a friend's request, looks into the odd behavior of Albert Stoddard, the husband of a woman who hopes to become the...
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William G. Tapply, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-30352-5
Brady Coyne (Past Tense; Scar Tissue; etc.) has been around for almost two decades now, and the low-key, fly-fishing Boston lawyer with an overly developed need for self-reliance has never been in better form. Among Coyne's clients who are also...
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H. G. Tapply, Author, William G. Tapply, Author . Lyons $22.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-59228-477-1
Longtime fly fishing essayist Tapply shares reflections on fly fishing that range from anecdotes illustrating the sport's appeal to detailed tips for pros. While the book doesn't dazzle with flowery prose, its even tone of understated...
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William G. Tappley, Author, William G. Tapply, Author Delacorte Press $16.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-385-29711-0
The eighth superior mystery featuring Boston lawyer-sleuth Brady Coyne ( The Dutch Blue Error et al.) begins as a pleasant medium-boiled yarn but ends as a shocking tale of secret horror. Coyne is called in the middle of the night by his long-time...
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