Shadow of Death - Hardcover

William G. Tapply

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786261978 ISBN 13: 9780786261970

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2004

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Suspicious that his candidate's husband might be having an affair, a campaign manager asks Boston attorney Brady Coyne to find out what is really going on before the campaign is derailed. Brady is normally reluctant to get involved in this kind of domestic situation, but the candidate is an old friend who asks for his help personally. From Boston's North End to the pastoral village of Southwick, New Hampshire, Brady's quest to uncover the truth brings him face-to-face with the deadly consequences of a decades-old tragedy.

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Dirty-And Deadly-Politics

Boston attorney Brady Coyne has just received a call from Jimmy D'Ambrosio, a Democratic party kingmaker and acting campaign manager for prosecutor Ellen Stoddard, who's running for a Senate seat. She's got a real shot at becoming the state's first woman to hold the post, except for one thing: her husband Albert, a college professor and Brady's occasional fishing partner, has been acting strangely, and now he's disappeared altogether.

D'Ambrosio wonders if Albert's having a romantic dalliance with a coed, or if some other scandal is threatening to break. Either way, the campaign can't be involved, so he wants Coyne to investigate and keep any threatening skeletons locked firmly away in the closet. But after Coyne uncovers evidence of a murder, D'Ambrosio claims client-attorney privilege and threatens to have him disbarred if he leaks a word of the case to anyone. But Brady refuses to drop the case, and follows the trail to the little town of Southwick, New Hampshire, where an idyllic fa�ade hides a terrible secret. And as the campaign draws to a climax, it seems that Brady Coyne has just been elected most likely to be the next to die.

"Coyne is an old friend to his fans, and he can't drop by often enough with his amiable tales of murder and mayhem."-Booklist

"William G. Tapply is one of the best there is today...a worthy successor to Hammet and both MacDonalds (Ross and John)."-Chicago Tribune

About the Author:

William G. Tapply is a contributing editor to Field & Stream. He is the author of numerous books on fishing and wildlife as well as more than twenty books of crime fiction, most recently A Fine Line. He lives in Hancock, New Hampshire.

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