Unfortunately, this is the final Brady Coyne novel. It was completed shortly before William G. Tapply’s death last year. He left behind a substantial body of work, including 25 books in the Brady Coyne series alone. Mr. Tapply was a masterful storyteller. Reading his books has always been an immense pleasure, and he will be greatly missed.
Brady Coyne, of course, is a Boston attorney, specializing in a few private cases and kept up to snuff completing the drudgery of a mountain of paperwork by his long-time secretary. He is rescued from this tedium when he receives a phone call from a former close friend and neighbor, informing him that she is in her ex-husband’s hotel room where she has just found him stabbed to death. Brady had just had a reunion with the victim the day before for a drink after a hiatus of a decade.
Naturally, Brady accepts the woman’s request to represent her, and she quickly becomes the number one suspect. It’s up to Brady not only to support his client’s emotional state, but to protect her from the police and come up with the necessary clues to identify the real murderer. While it’s not a complex plot, it is well-told. This book, as all his others, is highly recommended.
