William G. Tapply

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1984
  • Latest Book:
    January 2011
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Full Series List in Order

A Brady Coyne Mystery

1 - Death at Charity's Point (Feb-1985)
2 - The Dutch Blue Error (Dec-1984)
3 - Follow the Sharks (Sep-1985)
4 - The Marine Corpse // A Rodent of Doubt (Aug-1986)
5 - Dead Meat (Mar-1987)
6 - The Vulgar Boatman (1987)
7 - A Void in Hearts (Sep-1988)
8 - Dead Winter (Apr-1989)
9 - Client Privilege (Apr-1990)
10 - The Spotted Cats (Mar-1991)
11 - Tight Lines (Apr-1992)
12 - The Snake Eater (Dec-1993)
13 - The Seventh Enemy (Jan-1995)
14 - Close to the Bone (Oct-1996)
15 - Cutter's Run (Jun-1998)
16 - Muscle Memory (Jul-1999)
17 - Scar Tissue (Oct-2000)
18 - Past Tense (Oct-2001)
20 - A Fine Line (Nov-2002)
21 - Shadow of Death (Nov-2003)
22 - Nervous Water (Sep-2005)
23 - Out Cold (Sep-2006)
24 - One-Way Ticket (Sep-2007)
25 - Hell Bent (Oct-2008)
26 - Outwitting Trolls (Nov-2010)

A Stoney Calhoun Novel

1 - Bitch Creek (Sep-2004)
2 - Gray Ghost (Mar-2007)
3 - Dark Tiger (Oct-2009)

Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • The Dutch Blue Error

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 2

    To protect the value of his million-dollar stamp, Oliver Weston arranges to have Brady Coyne secretly buy its duplicate, but the simple transaction turns to murder, with Brady's secretary as the prime suspect...

  • Death at Charity's Point

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 1

    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...

  • Follow the Sharks

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 3

    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 h...

  • The Marine Corpse // A Rodent of Doubt

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 4

    Boston attorney Brady Coyne is hired to look into the baffling murder of Stu Carver, who had been undercover in the guise of a vagrant in order to gather material for a book on Boston's homeless people...

  • The Vulgar Boatman

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 6

    Republican gubernatorial hopeful Tom Baron needs help. On the eve of a low-budget fundraiser, a local teenage girl is found strangled to death in the woods behind the high school. And Baron's son Buddy, the girl's boyfriend, is missing. With the l...

  • Dead Meat

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 5

    Everyone Is Guilty Of Something... In contemporary Russia the old ghosts have been laid to rest, but the stench of corruption is just as strong as ever. Now a top-level Moscow investigator, dispatched to St. Petersburg, is about to discover just how ...

  • A Void in Hearts

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 7

    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 ...

  • Dead Winter

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 8

    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 d...

  • Client Privilege

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 9

    SUSPICION IN CHAMBERS Having a well-respected judge for a friend and client had never been a problem for Brady Coyne until the day the judge received a blackmail note. Even a whisper ofimpropriety can ruin the Honorable Chester Y. "Pops" Popowski'...



  • The Spotted Cats

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 10

    With his client, Jeff Newton, a professional hunter, lying near death--the victim of an attack by an African cat--Brady must investigate the disappearance of Newton's priceless pre-Columbian treasure by himself. Reprint. NYT. PW. ...

  • Tight Lines

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 11

    THREE CORPSES AND A FAMILY TREE .. . The flaming New England autumn always makes Brady Coyne uncomfortable, what with its intimations of death--and the end of fishing season. And the lawyer's mood is not lightened when a New England blue blood urges...

  • The Snake Eater

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 12

    The enemies Vietnam veteran Daniel McCloud made a generation ago catch up with him at his rural New England hideaway, sending Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, who befriended McCloud while defending him on marijuana charges, on a murder hunt. 12,500 first p...

  • The Seventh Enemy

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 13

    An assassin is working his way down the list of "enemies" who are against the gun-control bill, and after his friend Walt Kinnick is murdered, Boston lawyer Brady Coyne realizes he is number seven on the list. 12,500 first printing....

  • Social Work

    in 3rd Culprit (Worldwide)

    Crime in all its devious incarnations is presented in this treat of murderous morsels dished out by old ppros and promising newcomers. Artfully crafted and impossible to put down, each story bountifully demooonstrates why these authors are la creme d...

  • Close to the Bone

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 14

    Brady Coyne''s friend Paul Cizek is burned out from his job as a defense lawyer, and when his empty fishing boat is found adrift on the seas, Brady must figure out whether his friend committed suicide, was murdered, or had an accident.

    ...

  • Cutter's Run

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 15

    A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE Attorney Brady Coyne is on his way back home to Boston from his usual weekend commute to bucolic Garrison, Maine, when he gives Charlotte Gillespie a ride home from taking her sick dog to the veterinarian. But Brady suspec...

  • Muscle Memory

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 16

    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 we...

  • Scar Tissue

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 17

    Brady Coyne is an attorney with a select clientele and a small practice - he handles mostly the boring paperwork such as deeds, wills, and divorces and leaves the more exciting aspects of the legal profession to others. A call from Jacob Gold, an ol...

  • Past Tense

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 18

    When Boston lawyer Brady Coyne takes his girlfriend Evie up to Cape Cod for a romantic weekend getaway, the last thing he expects to find in the driveway of their secluded cottage is the body of her murdered ex. But when police declare her a chief...



  • A Fine Line

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 20

    BRADY COYNE IS FEELING THE HEAT. Walt Duffy spent his life traveling the world, documenting the beauty and wonder of nature through the lens of a camera. But there was nothing natural about the ugly way he died, his skull fractured by an unknown a...

  • Shadow of Death

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 21

    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 w...

  • Bitch Creek

    A Stoney Calhoun Novel - 1

    ". . . It's wonderful to see Tapply get out of the city and into an altogether different kind of time that suits his unhurried storytelling perfectly."--Kirkus Reviews"Outstanding . . . electrifying . . . ingenious . . . one of the most convincingly ...

  • Nervous Water

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 22

    In one of the finest novels yet in Tapply's long-running series, Nervous Water explores the previously hidden past of his much beloved character, Boston attorney Brady Coyne. Contacted by an aged relative with whom he'd long lost touch, Brady agrees ...

  • Out Cold

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 23

    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 brown...

  • Gray Ghost

    A Stoney Calhoun Novel - 2
    Worldwide Mysteries - 636

    Stoney Calhoun is a man without a past. Still, pieces of lost memory seem to tantalize his daily life since a freak accident wiped his slate clean. Now part owner of a Portland bait-and-tackle shop, it's just another morning out fishing with a custom...

  • One-Way Ticket

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 24

    Boston attorney Brady Coyne has a generally placid life with a nice house, a stable relationship, and the occasional fishing trip with old friends. But one balmy June evening, that quiet life begins to fall apart after Brady receives a frantic phone...

  • Hell Bent

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 25

    With his personal life at a bit of a cross-roads, Boston attorney Brady Coyne finds his own past coming back to haunt his professional life when his ex-girlfriend Alex Sinclair turns up looking for a lawyer to represent her brother. Augustine Sinclai...

  • Dark Tiger

    A Stoney Calhoun Novel - 3

    Seven years ago, Stoney Calhoun woke up in a VA hospital with no memories and a series of unexplained talents (language ability, weapons expertise, etc.). Since then he's been living quietly, working as a part time fishing guide and co-owner of a loc...

  • Upland Autumn

    In this collection of original stories, highly acclaimed novelist and outdoor writer William Tapply shares his finest stories of bird hunting in the Northeast country. Every season for over thirty years, Tapply has hunted the fields and backcountry o...



  • Outwitting Trolls

    A Brady Coyne Mystery - 26

    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...

  • The Nomination

    The Nomination is a fast-paced action and suspense thriller that brings events from the final days of the Vietnam War into direct conflict with contemporary American politics. Vietnam War hero and Massachusetts Judge Thomas Larrigan is hand-picked by...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William G. Tapply has published 31 books.

William G. Tapply does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Nomination, was published in January 2011.

The first book by William G. Tapply, The Dutch Blue Error, was published in December 1984.

Yes. William G. Tapply has 2 series.
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