Scar Tissue: A Brady Coyne Novel (Brady Coyne Novels) - Hardcover

Brady Coyne is a Boston lawyer who'd rather be fishing than trying a case. Most of his clients are also his friends, so when Jake and Sharon Gold's 15-year-old son and his girlfriend are killed in a car accident, Brady tries to lighten their load by handling the details of the police investigation and the funeral arrangements. But Brian's body hasn't been recovered yet, despite the efforts of police divers at the accident scene. There are other signs that this was more than a typical scenario of teenage drivers taking a curve too fast, but the authorities don't seem interested in looking into them. Brady soon realizes that someone's applying political pressure to keep the lid on a secret everyone but Brady and the Golds seems to know about: a pornography ring in which a beloved community leader and the best and brightest local high school students are deeply involved. This is Coyne's 17th outing, as reliable a harbinger of fall as the first bonfire of the season. No big surprises here, but William Tapply's popular series continues to win fans charmed by his thoughtful hero, his solid plotting, and his smooth pacing. --Jane Adams

"Tapply is the best there is today...A worthy successor to Hammet and Both MacDonalds (Ross and John)."-Chicago Tribune

Oustanding Praise for Willam G. Tapply and his novels

Scar Tissue
"If you had to choose a lawyer/sleuth to have a drink with, you would be wise to pick Brady Coyne, star of Tapply's long-running series...as always with this invariably enjoyable series, the real fun is listening to Brady grouse about life's many little irritants, from work to relationships to the Red Sox. Set 'em up Joe; Brady's got a little story to tell."-Booklist

"[Brady Coyne] is one of the most convincingly heroic and likeable of contemporary sleuths."
--Publishers Weekly

Muscle Memory
"Mystery lovers will thoroughly enjoy Brady and the other characters that Tapply creates. They are sharply etched and, together with a deft narrative, make Tapply one of the best in this genre. The plot is carefully drawn and the description and the scenes are vivid."--Florida Times-Union

"Virtually every flowing phrase of Muscle Memory impels the story or deepens character, and, quite often, both. Only a few writers of crime fiction have managed to generate prose this leanly poetic in the service of their hard-boiled stories. Tapply does it all the time."-Boston Globe

"Well-told and compelling...Tapply keeps you guessing right to the end."-Detroit Free Press

"Readers will find Tapply's Muscle Memory a pleasure...Tapply 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. Picking up the latest Brady Coyne novel could easily become a muscle memory-that is, for those to whom it's not one already."-Publishers Weekly

Cutter's Run
"Using his first-person style, Tapply gives an accurate picture of the Maine scene, with believable characters, finely tuned dialogue, and prose that flows as smoothly as a trout stream."-Bangor Daily News

"Tapply's quiet and deliberate prose has always called to mind the expression 'Still waters run deep.' [This] should appeal to those who like action as well as interaction in their reading matter."-Boston Herald

"Tapply is one of the best and most consistently good mystery writers in the business."-Tulsa World