Muscle Memory: A Brady Coyne Novel - Softcover

Tapply, William G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312988214 ISBN 13: 9780312988210

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2003

Synopsis

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...

About this title

About the Author

William G. Tapply is the author of over twenty mysteries, most featuring Brady Coyne. He is also a contributing editor to Field and Stream and a noted writer on fishing and the outdoors. He lives in New Hampshire.

From the Back Cover

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

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...

"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

From the Inside Flap

MORE PRAISE FOR WILLIAM G. TAPPLY AND HIS NOVELS

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 on Muscle Memory

SCAR TISSUE
"Outstanding...electrifying...ingenious...one of the most convincingly heroic and likeable of contemporary sleuths."-Publishers Weekly

"Suspense accents the complex plot, a puzzler to the last page."-Daily Oklahoman

"Scar Tissue reinforces the knowledge that William G. Tapply is a superstar who deserves wide readership. The story is cleverly devised and never slows down. Anyone who enjoys a solid, entertaining investigative tale will love Scar Tissue and want to read the previous Coyne caper, Muscle Memory."-Midwest Book Review

THE SEVENTH ENEMY
"A new Brady Coyne novel is as easy to slip into as a well-worn pair of jeans...An entertaining and satisfying suspense novel."-Booklist

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 (Maine) 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

CLOSE TO THE BONE
"A splendid writers whose sleek prose matches his clever plots and vivid, interesting characters."-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

THE SNAKE EATER
"Tapply, probably as popular as Robert B. Parker, gives protagonist Brady Coyne another chance to shine...Polished prose, comfortable characters and surroundings, and en elegantly twisted plot produce a winner."-Library Journal

DEAD MEAT
"Tapply is a writer with a fine eye and an acute sense of place, and his novels drawn on the New England scene beautifully."-Boston Globe

DEAD WINTER
"With the distinctive presence of Coyne, William G. Tapply has established himself as one of the best practitioners of the hard-boiled school."-Washington Post

Edition details

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312988214
• ISBN 13: 9780312988210
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304