The Brady Coyne Mysteries

17 primary works • 22 total works

Death at Charity's Point

by William G. Tapply

Published 1 January 1984

The Dutch Blue Error

by William G. Tapply

Published 1 January 1984

Follow the Sharks

by William G. Tapply

Published 1 January 1985

The Marine Corpse

by William G. Tapply

Published 1 January 1986

Dead Meat

by William G. Tapply

Published 5 January 1988

The Vulgar Boatman

by William G. Tapply

Published 1 January 1988

A Void in Hearts

by William G. Tapply

Published 1 September 1988

Dead Winter

by William G. Tapply

Published 1 April 1989

Client Privilege

by William G. Tapply

Published 1 April 1990

The Spotted Cats

by William G. Tapply

Published 1 March 1991

Tight Lines

by William G. Tapply

Published 1 April 1992

The Snake Eater

by William G. Tapply

Published 2 January 1994

The Seventh Enemy

by William G. Tapply

Published 1 January 1995

Close to the Bone

by William G. Tapply

Published 1 October 1996

Cutter's Run

by William G. Tapply

Published 15 June 1998

Muscle Memory

by William G. Tapply

Published 1 July 1999

One-Way Ticket

by William G. Tapply

Published 18 September 2007

Scar Tissue

by William G. Tapply

Published 1 October 2000

Past Tense

by William G. Tapply

Published 1 October 2001

Shadow of Death

by William G. Tapply

Published 17 November 2003

Suspicious that his candidate's husband might be having an affair, the campaign manager convinces Boston attorney Brady Coyne to hire a discreet private investigator to find out what is really going on before the campaign itself is derailed. Brady is normally reluctant to get involved in this kind of domestic situation but the candidate is an old friend who has asked for his help personally. Hopeful that any odd turn of behavior will be easily explained away, Brady hires a former undercover cop turn P.I. to tail the possibly-errant husband.
What appeared to be a simple situation quickly turns deadly when Brady first gets a cryptic call from the P.I. and then the P.I. is found murdered in a car crash clearly staged to make it appear to be an accident. Since Brady is barred by attorney/client privilege from speaking to the police - and his client has refused to relinquish privilege to allow him to do so - he takes it upon himself to find out what has happened to the still missing husband and the people responsible for the murder of his colleague. From Boston's North End to the pastoral village of Southwick, New Hampshire, Brady's quest to uncover the truth leads him to face the deadly consequences of a decades-old tragedy.