Death at Charity's Point

Death at Charity's Point by Tapply, William G.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781890208028.

The first of fourteen Brady Coyne mysteries; the fifteenth, Cutters Run, publishes July 1998 from St. Martins Press. Charity won the 1984 Scribner Crime Novel Award.A legal thriller without a courtroom? A lawyer whos actually a nice guy? Heres the brief . . .The Lawyer . . . Bostons Brady Coyne is keyed way down. Hed rather fish than fight. When hes full of beans, theyre from a can, washed down with beer. Hes not partnership material-legal or matrimonial. Barrister to the Brahmins through a quirk of Fate, Brady finds his clients usually demand his personal, discreet attention.The Client . . . Elderly Florence Gresham is wealthy and whipcord tough. A realist, shes accepted the loss of her elder son to the jungles of Vietnam and the suicide of her husband. But when her scholarly, reclusive younger son steps off a cliff, Florence wont buy the coroners obvious conclusion.The Case . . . What happened to George? His mother wants Brady to uncover the truth. She offers an incentive: a hefty percentage of the double indemnity life insurance policy payoff-assuming, of course, that Brady overturns the suicide verdict. And low key or not, barrister Brady likes to win . . .