New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The last mystery completed by Tapply before his death in the series featuring Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing, Publisher and bookseller Otto Penzler described Coyne as "one of those mystery heroes in whom decency is perhaps the paramount characteristic. . .
A steady intelligence is always present, and the reader increasingly appreciates the carefulness with which his creator regards the human condition: the relationships between men and women, parents and children, workers and their colleagues, the guilty and the innocent. Betrayal, above all, is something he seems to have made a special area of study." 273 pp. ISBN: 978-0-312531270.