Brady Coyne
Created by William Tapply

BRADY COYNE is a Boston lawyer, but the books have nothing to do with legal hijinks. He gets involved in a lot of shit, sometimes as a corollary to his legal practice, but more often as a favor to a friend or out of simple curiosity/outraged sense of honor, as in Cutter's Run (1998), arguably the best and certainly the toughest of the series. His favorite fishing buddy is the Rick Boyer's hard-boiled dentist Doc Adams, who has yet to appear in a Coyne novel, but is mentioned in every book in the series.

Both characters qualify as private eyes by your definition and certainly by mine "one involved in an investigation for a private party or for private reasons." Like early Perry Mason, Brady seems to favor a hands-on approach to criminal justice.

BY THE WAY...

• "I was in contact with William Tapply recently, and asked him if Brady Coyne (his character) and Doc Adams (Rick Boyer's character) were ever going to get together in a book...to which he said he didn't know...distance, both so busy etc. But he did say that around spring of 2002, a book entitled First Flight will be coming out that will feature Brady Coyne and Philip R. Craig's JW Jackson. Thought you would like to know."
  -- Mike Morris

NOVELS

• Death at Charity's Point (1984)
• The Dutch Blue Error (1984)
• Follow the Sharks (1984)
• The Marine Corpse (1986; aka "A Rodent of Doubt")
• Dead Meat (1987)
• The Vulgar Boatman (1987)
• A Void in Hearts (1988)
• Dead Winter (1989)
• Client Privilege (1990)
• The Spotted Cats (1991)
• Tight Lines (1992)
• The Snake Eater (1993)
• The Seventh Enemy (1995)
• Close to the Bone (1996)
• Cutter's Run (1998)
• Muscle Memory (1999). Buy this book
• Scar Tissue (2000) ..Buy this book
• Past Tense (2001) .Buy this book
• First Flight (2001; with Philip R. Craig's J.W. Jackson) .Buy this book
• A Fine Line (2002) .Buy this book
• Shadow of Death (2003).. Buy this book
• Second Sight (2005; with Philip R. Craig's J.W. Jackson) .Buy this book
• One-Way Ticket (2007)) ..Buy this book.. Buy the audio.. Kindle it!
• Third Strike: (2007; with Philip R. Craig's J.W. Jackson) ..Buy this book
• Hell Bent: (2008).. Buy this book
• Outwitting Trolls (2010)) ..Buy this book.. Kindle it!

Respectfully submitted by Paul Bergin. And thanks, Mike, for the tip.

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