Brady Coyne mysteries
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 1
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A Boston lawyer investigates a prep school teacher's suspicious suicide Brady Coyne never meant to become the private lawyer to New England's upper crust, but after more than a decade working for Florence Gresham and her friends, he has developed a reputation for discretion that the rich cannot resist. He is fond of Mrs. Gresham-unflappable, uncouth, and never tardy with a check-and he has seen her through her husband's suicide and her first son's...
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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 Coyne mysteries volume 3
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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 5
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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. But a local Native American group won’t take...
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 6
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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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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, Brady Coyne, it looks an awful lot like blackmail.
Brady...
8) Dead winter
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 8
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Brady Coyne, self-assured lawyer to the rich, endeavors to help the wayward son of client/friend Desmond Winter, retired Unitarian minister. Marc Winter discovers his murdered wife's battered, nude body aboard the family boat and phones the police, who, of course, suspect him. A grabber from the start, the plot wends its way through a maze of family secrets, two subsequent murders, and a budding love affair.
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 9
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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 TV reporter has evidence of a long-ago affair Pops conducted...
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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Brady Coyne suspects murder when he finds the drowned body of the heir to an estate in Concord, Massachusetts.
12) The snake eater
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Boston lawyer Brady Coyne helps a Vietnam veteran find an agent for a book he's written, but when the agent rejects it events take a deadly turn.
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 13
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Taking sides on gun control, Brady ends up in the line of fire Over drinks one night at his Boston waterfront apartment, goodhearted lawyer Brady Coyne finds himself disagreeing with an old friend about a divisive subject: gun control. Wally Kinnick is no gun nut. But, an environmental activist and hunting expert, he believes so strongly in the right to bear arms that he has come to Boston to testify against an assault weapons ban. When he changes...
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 14
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Defense attorney Paul Cizek is depressed following his latest victory in which he successfully defended a man who killed a woman while driving drunk, but when his empty boat is found drifting at sea, his friend and colleague Brady Coyne is not convinced it was an accident and launches his own investigation.
15) Cutter's run
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In the backwoods of Maine, Brady encounters a strange, racist conspiracy Brady Coyne is far from Boston when he stumbles across his latest case. He's in the beautiful Maine countryside, fishing and spending time with his beloved Alexandria Shaw, when he meets Charlotte Gillespie on the side of the road. A beautiful middle-aged black woman, she's walking into town with her dog in her arms. The puppy is near dead, having been poisoned-probably by the...
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 16
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When series lawyer Brady Coyne agrees to handle a divorce case, he opens the door to trouble. His client, in hock to the mob, disappears, and his client's wife is found murdered.
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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...
20) Shadow of death
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 20
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c2003
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Boston attorney Brady Coyne is asked to find out if a political candidates husband is having an affair, but when the investigator is murdered, he finds himself looking into a decades-old tragedy.
21) Nervous water
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 21
A Brady Coyne mystery volume 23
Brady Coyne novels volume 21
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A Brady Coyne mystery volume 23
Brady Coyne novels volume 21
Thorndike Press large print Americana
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2005
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Contacted by an aged relative with whom he'd long lost touch, Brady agrees to help his Uncle Moze with a sensitive family matter. Having received a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Moze is looking to mend fences with his only daughter. But the daughter seems to have simply disappeared, leaving no clues or hints as to her whereabouts. As Brady tackles the seemingly impossible task of finding his cousin - a case that looks less and less like a simple missing...
22) Out cold
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Boston attorney Brady Coyne finds trouble nearly on his doorstep when he lets his dog out into his backyard one January morning and finds a teenage girl buried in the snow. The only clue to her identify is a small piece of paper with his address scribbled on it. Now he must find out who she was, why she had his address, and what happened to her. These are details someone doesn't want him to find the answers to.
23) One-way ticket
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Attorney Brady Coyne gets himself tangled up with the Boston mob when he tries to intercede for his old friend and law school roommate Dalton Lancaster who has been beaten by thugs demanding payment for his son Robert's debt, and the situation escalates when Brady learns the Russo mob does not want money, but the influence of Robert's grandmother, a Superior Court judge.
24) Hell bent
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Brady Coyne's past personal life starts to haunt his professional life after he agrees to represent his ex-girlfriend's brother through divorce proceedings, but when Brady's client is found dead in his rented apartment, he questions the ruling of death by suicide.
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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...