Brady Coyne mysteries
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 1
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Florence Gresham hires attorney Brady Coyne to investigate the facts surrounding the death of her son George, a shy unassuming teacher whose body washes ashore after plunging from the cliff of Charity's Point.
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 2
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To solve a murder, Brady must find a copy of the world's rarest stamp It is a small paper square with uneven edges, dark blue in color and bearing a smudged portrait of a long-dead king. It doesn't look like much to Brady Coyne, but the stamp known as the Dutch Blue Error is one of a kind-a philatelic freak worth at least one million dollars. It is the prize possession of Ollie Weston, a wheelchair-bound Boston banker, and it is valuable enough that...
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Brady searches Red Sox Nation for a ballplayer's kidnapped son For two years, Eddie Donagan was on track to become the greatest Red Sox pitcher of all time. Then one day, without warning, he went from unhittable to ineffective-forcing him to drop out of the Majors before he even hit his prime. Attorney Brady Coyne met Donagan before he turned pro, and stays friends with him even as the faded star drifts into depression, disappearing from his wife...
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 4
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Brady investigates what appears to be the murder of a homeless man 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....
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 5
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In Maine, Brady investigates a deadly business deal He may be a millionaire, but Vern Wheeler never forgot that he is a son of Maine-land of big sky, wide lakes, and the fattest salmon on the East Coast. To escape the boardroom, he buys a rundown fishing lodge in the wilds of his home state, and with his brother turns it into the most fashionable retreat in New England. After years of happy fishing, the Wheelers have no interest in selling Raven Lodge....
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A politician's son gets involved in a murder, and drags Brady along with him Running for governor on the Republican ticket, Tom Baron 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...
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 7
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A private detective is dead, and Brady suspects it's murder Les Katz may well be scum. A private detective, he does not hesitate to take the case when a Farrah Fawcett look-alike hires him to tail her husband. The photos he secures suggest the man is cheating on his wife, but they aren't definitive. Rather than disappoint his client, he contacts her man and offers to sell him the pictures. Katz considers this a charitable act, but to his attorney,...
8) Dead winter
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 8
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When a minister's son is accused of murder, Brady doesn't know whom to trust Desmond Winters has had more trouble than a Unitarian minister deserves. Over six years ago, his wife disappeared with their fourteen-year-old daughter, promising to return someday. The daughter came back after six months; the wife never did. The experience scarred Desmond's son, Marc, who acted out by getting involved with cocaine smugglers and marrying an exotic dancer....
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 9
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Defending a client, Brady gets himself implicated in a murder charge Brady Coyne has known Chester "Pops" Popowski since law school. An honest, battle-hardened Massachusetts judge, Pops is more soldier than scholar-and has been known to defend what's right with his fists. After years on the bench, Pops has been nominated for a federal judgeship, with a possible Supreme Court appointment in his future. Only one thing stands in his way: blackmail. A...
10) The spotted cats
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 10
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When an aging big-game hunter is robbed, Brady goes on a leopard hunt Six years after the leopard attack that ended his career as a professional hunter, Jeff Newton is broken, crippled, and ready to die. His only pleasure is the occasional visit from Brady Coyne, Jeff's no-nonsense Boston lawyer who's come to Cape Cod to pay his respects to the old man. As always, Brady is entranced by the ex-hunter's houseful of trophies, none more dazzling than...
11) Tight lines
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 11
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For the sake of a dying client, Brady tracks down a prodigal daughter Concord, Massachusetts, is littered with literary monuments, of which the historic Ames house is only a minor one. But to Susan Ames, nowhere on earth is more important than this colonial residence where Emerson and Thoreau once broke bread with her ancestors. Dying of cancer, Susan knows the house should stay in her family, but the only heir is her daughter, Mary Ellen, a wild...
12) The snake eater
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 12
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The murder of a Green Beret points Brady toward a chilling Vietnam cover-up Daniel McCloud may grow marijuana, but as far as he's concerned, that does not make him a criminal. A Vietnam veteran still suffering from exposure to Agent Orange, he's found no help from the government and no relief outside of homegrown grass. When the local police in his small New England town bust him for possession, a friend reaches out to Brady Coyne, a Boston lawyer...
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 13
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In Massachusetts, a hunter scheduled to testify in favor of gun control is murdered. Lawyer Brad Coyne goes after the killers, only to learn that he, too, is on their hit list. By the author of The Snake Eaters.
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A fellow lawyer disappears from his boat, and Brady suspects foul play Although alleged criminals are considered innocent until proven guilty, acquittal doesn't make them saints. Boston lawyer Brady Coyne knows this all too well, but believes firmly enough in the right to counsel that he doesn't let it keep him up at night. His friend Paul Cizek, however, is another story. A rising young defense lawyer, Paul has made a name defending repugnant clients:...
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 15
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A middle-aged black woman disappears from a small town in Maine and swastikas are found sprayed on her property. Lawyer Brady Coyne tries to pierce the veil of silence.
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 17
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St. Martin's Minotaur
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2000
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18) Past tense
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 18
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Brady Coyne is a middle-aged Boston attorney with a small, select clientele - one that leaves him sufficient time to pursue a personal life. That personal life currently focuses on Evie Banyon, a hospital administrator Brady has been seeing for the past year. While they are on a weekend vacation in Cape Cod, though, a determined stalker from Evie's past turns up to torment her anew. After an unpleasant confrontation with him, Brady and Evie return...
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 22
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Brady Coyne is a Boston attorney, whose routine legal work and sedate lifestyle usually keep him far away from trouble. Unfortunately, one cold January morning, trouble comes to him. When Brady lets his dog out into the backyard of his Back Bay brownstone, he finds a girl buried under the snow in Brady's back yard. A teenager, maybe fifteen or sixteen, who had apparently crawled into the backyard, bleeding, in the middle of the night, only to die...
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 23
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To help an old friend with a gambling problem, Brady confronts the Boston mob Dalton Lancaster could have been a lawyer, but his heart wasn't in it. He quit Yale after his first year, and used his inheritance to go into the restaurant business, where he might have had some luck if he'd spent more time selling food and less time playing blackjack. As he gambled away his savings, restaurants, and family, his lawyer, Brady Coyne, stuck by him. So when...
24) Hell bent
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 24
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Boston attorney Brady Coyne finds his own past coming back to haunt his professional life when his ex-girlfriend Alex Shaw, long out of touch, reappears, wanting Brady to represent her brother. Augustine Shaw was a notable photo-journalist, happily married with two small children — until he returned from a stint in Iraq missing a hand and suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Now he's lost his career, his peace of mind and his family.
Brady...
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 25
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Brady Coyne is a Boston attorney who focuses on a few private clients and the legal drudgery of their everyday life, which leads to a generally unexciting life. Brady, however, gets a call from an old friend and former neighbor, a man from his past. When Brady was married and living in suburbia, Ken Nichols was his happily married neighbor. Both marriages fell apart years ago and Brady moved to Boston while Ken Nichols moved to Baltimore. Now a decade...