Muscle memory : a Brady Coyne novel

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Title:

Muscle memory : a Brady Coyne novel

Author:

Tapply, William G, author.

Series:

Brady Coyne novels ;

Series Number:

16.

Summary:

Attorney Brad Coyne defends his beer buddy, pro athlete Mick Fallon, after his wife Kaye, who had just filed for divorce, is found murdered. When Mick suddenly disappears, Brad begins investigating Kaye's private life--which yields the most surprising secrets of all. Martin's Press.

Edition:

St. Martin's pbks. ed.

Physical Description:

286 p. ; 18 cm.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Legal fiction (Literature)

Subject Term:

Coyne, Brady (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Lawyers -- Fiction.

Basketball players -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.

Publisher:

St. Martin's Paperbacks,

Publication Date:

2003

1999

ISBN:

9780312988210

Publication Information:

New York : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2003, c1999.

Call Number:

TAPPLY

Holds: Copies:

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Summary

WHEN A HUSBAND'S LIE...Attorney Brady Coyne has found his bar buddy Mick Fallon-former Detroit Pistons' star-brooding in his beer. His wife Kaye's just stunned him with a file for divorce, and she's taking him for everything. What Mick needs is a weapon like Brady to fight back. What Brady needs first is for Mick to come clean about his troubled marriage.BETRAYS A WIFE'S SECRET...What's no mystery is Mick's hair-trigger temper and gambling habit that's left him deep in debt to a local mobster. It's the third strike against him that's the eye-opener-Kaye's sudden brutal murder. With a motive that could hang him and an alibi nobody believes, Mick looks as guilty as sin-especially after he disappears.ONLY MURDER CAN REVEAL THE TRUTH.Now Brady's left to defend a man wanted for murder and on the run from his secrets. But it's Brady's investigation into Kaye's private life that yields the most surprising secrets of all. As each one unfolds they bring Brady closer to the truth about the crimes of the heart that could claim one more life before they're exposed...

Author Notes

William G. Tapply was born in Waltham, Massachusetts on July 16, 1940. He graduated from Harvard University in 1963. He wrote more than 40 books during his lifetime including the Brady Coyne mysteries series, the Stoney Calhoun Novel series, and numerous non-fiction books about fly fishing and the outdoors. He was also a contributing editor for Field and Stream, a columnist for American Angler, and part of The Writer magazine editorial board. He was an English professor at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts and ran The Writers Studio at Chickadee Farm with his wife Vicki Stiefel. He died on July 28, 2009 after a battle with leukemia.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

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 only repeatedly lies to him, he also gets Coyne knocked unconscious and embroiled in a hostage situation. There's one grievance Coyne is certain Fallon is not responsible for, however: the death of Fallon's wife, who was suing Fallon for divorce before she was murdered. A "muscle memory" accrues to any action repeated so frequently that it becomes second nature. In Fallon's case, muscle memory enabled him to ace late-game free throws, but since he has retired, the practice has underpinned his reflexive habit of lying to hide his decades-long gambling problem, which has led to an alarming debt to Boston's most notorious mobster. Enter Coyne, who's recovering from his own divorce and isn't yet ready for the relationship opportunities that present themselves. Tapply (Cutter's Run) integrates Coyne's personal travails and his professional obligations, marking this novel as a model addition in a mature series: smoothly written, accessible to new readers and solidly plotted. with a singular, self-contained story that satisfies on its own while advancing the book-to-book progression of the series. Picking up the latest Brady Coyne novel could easily become a muscle memoryÄthat is, for those to whom it's not one already. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Library Journal Review

When series lawyer Brady Coyne agrees to handle a divorce case, he opens the door to trouble. His client, in hock to the mob, disappears, and his client's wife is found murdered. A solid, satisfying Boston mystery. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.