A Void In Hearts by William G Tapply

A private detective is dead, and Brady suspects it’s murder

Brady is consulted by a private eye by the name of Les Katz, who was hired by a woman who suspected her husband of having an affair. Katz took some incriminating photos that he sold to the husband, now he is worried about the ramifications of his small-time blackmail. When Katz is killed in a hit-and-run accident, Brady is determined to find out if it was murder. His investigation leads to a money-laundering scheme involving high figures in the financial world and the leader of organized crime in New England. In developing the case, Brady finds complications of the heart as compelling as clues Still trying to define the relationship with Gloria, his former wife, he is fast drawn into an attachment with Katz's widow that is closer than he anticipated. The case is wrapped up in a suspenseful conclusion that brings Brady near death in the snow-covered hills outside Boston his own love life is not so easily resolved.

Printing History

Written by William G Tapply (1940-2009)

Scribner Book Company

September 1988

ISBN 684 18793

Ballantine Books

February 1990

ISBN 345 35868

G K Hall & Co

April 1990

ISBN 816 14822

Kindle Edition 

August 2013

The Vulgar Boatman by William G Tapply

A politician’s son gets involved in a murder, and drags Brady along with him

Tom Baron is running for governor on the Republican ticket and needs his image to be squeaky clean. He employs men like Brady Coyne, a compassionate Boston attorney, to keep problems far away from his campaign. But when his son doesn’t come home one night, Tom’s political strategy becomes a criminal matter. His son’s girlfriend has been murdered, and the boy has no alibi. To protect his friend’s political ambitions, Brady digs into the investigation, finding a trail of drugs and corruption that stretches far across the Eastern seaboard. Tom Baron may be his friend, but Brady Coyne will stomach no cover-up. If the son is guilty and Tom is involved, Brady will come down on the would-be governor with a fury that will make Boston politics look like a student council election.

Printing History

Written by William G Tapply (1940-2009)

 

Chivers Press

1987

ISBN 745 19595 4

Scribner Book Company

January 1988

ISBN 684 18792 2

Ballantine Books

August 1989

ISBN 345 35577 6

Kindle Edition

August 2013

 

Death At Charity Point by Willam G Tapply

A Boston lawyer investigates a prep school teacher’s suspicious suicide

Brady Coyne never meant to become the private lawyer to New England’s upper crust, but after more than a decade working for Florence Gresham and her friends, he has developed a reputation for discretion that the rich cannot resist. He is fond of Mrs. Gresham, the unflappable, uncouth, and never tardy with a check, and he has seen her through her husband’s suicide and her first son’s death in Vietnam. But he has never seen her crack until the day her second son, George, leaps into the sea at jagged Charity’s Point. The authorities call it a suicide, but Mrs. Gresham cannot believe her son, like his father, would take his own life. As Brady digs into the apparently blemish-free past of this upper-class prep school history teacher, he finds dark secrets. George Gresham may not have been suicidal, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t in trouble.

Printing History

written by William G. Tapply (1940–2009)

Charles Scribner's Sons

 ISBN 684-18056 (March 1984)

Ballantine Books (February 1985)

ISBN 345-32014

MysteriousPress.com/Open Road (August 2013)
ISBN  1 480-42743-8

Top 5 Posts of 2013

To ring in the new year, the Top 5 posts of 2013

Quite a collection of mysteries and suspense

From  July 7th

N is for None But the Lethal Heart

From August 19th

T is for Terror Comes Creeping

From September 30th

The Marine Corpse by William G Tapply

From September 11th 

W is for Wanton

From November 18th

Demolishers by Donald Hamilton

See you in 2014

Happy New Year

The Marine Corpse by William G Tapply

A Brady Coyne Mystery

The man is found on the icy streets of Boston, vomit in his beard, alcohol in his system, and ice in his veins. The police assume he is just another in the dozens of derelicts whom the urban winter claims each year, but Brady Coyne knows better. Attorney to New England’s upper crust, he was the dead man’s lawyer, and he knows that Stuart Carver was no bum: He was a senator’s nephew.

An author whose last book was so lousy that it became a bestseller, Carver was planning a serious novel, and was doing research on homelessness in the metropolis when he was killed. The icepick wound on his skull suggests he learned something that someone didn’t want to see in print. To find out who murdered his client, Brady will delve into an underworld that is even more cold, dark, and deadly than Boston in winter.

 

Printing History

written by William G. Tapply (1940–2009)

Charles Scribner's Sons

 BCE Edition (1986)

Ballantine Books (September 1987)

ISBN 345-34057