Follow the Sharks, William G. Tapply
Follow the Sharks, William G. Tapply
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Follow the Sharks

Author: William G. Tapply

Narrator: William G. Tapply

Unabridged: 7 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/15/2021

Synopsis

The Boston attorney searches Red Sox Nation for a ballplayer's kidnapped son in this "grittily persuasive" mystery novel (Kirkus Reviews).

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 and child for days at a time. Finally, the Donagans are thrown into crisis—but it isn't Eddie's disappearance that causes it. It's his son's.

One morning, ten-year-old E. J. leaves for his paper route and never returns. Soon, the family receives a ransom demand, and Brady agrees to be the go-between. He finds that the son's problems stem from the father's, and that Eddie Donagan has a dark side no amount of natural talent could overcome.

About William G. Tapply

William G. Tapply (1940-2009) was an American author best known for writing legal thrillers. A lifelong New Englander, he graduated from Amherst and Harvard before going on to teach social studies at Lexington High School. He published his first novel, Death at Charity's Point, in 1984. A story of death and betrayal among Boston Brahmins, it introduced crusading lawyer Brady Coyne, a fishing enthusiast whom Tapply would follow through twenty-five more novels, including Follow the Sharks, The Vulgar Boatman, and the posthumously published Outwitting Trolls.

Besides writing regular columns for Field and Stream, Gray's Sporting Journal, and American Angler, Tapply wrote numerous books on fishing, hunting, and life in the outdoors. He was also the author of The Elements of Mystery Fiction, a writer's guide. He died in 2009, at his home in Hancock, New Hampshire.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on November 28, 2016

This is the third entry in William G. Tapply's series featuring Boston attorney, Brady Coyne, and it's the best in the series thus far. By this book, Tapply had fairly well established Coyne's basic personality and habits, which would not change in any significant way over the rest of the series. Hi......more

Goodreads review by John on June 17, 2024

. Despite “regional mystery” having an actual definition--usually novels where the locale is as important as the people--for me it's always been more a matter of feel and scope. Stories that take place in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago just seem bigger. Detroit and New Orleans, while in no way sma......more

Goodreads review by Aravind on June 06, 2020

This is the first book by Tapply I have read and I am glad to have discovered this author through the goodreads reviews of author / reviewer James Thane. Brady Coyne is an excellent character that has survived for a long time in the world of fiction. He seems to be a gentleman with a solid conscience......more

Goodreads review by Sherry on July 15, 2015

This was Brady Coyne at his best. This is a story about a young kid who gets drafted in the big leagues. You don't have to like baseball to like this book. Great mystery.......more

Goodreads review by Don on June 16, 2017

(2 1/2) These Brady Coyne books are my retro Stone Barrington fix. Big fun, comfort reading, couple of hours invested into (usually) interesting procedural stories. This one even has a little baseball flavor to make it even more up my alley. There is usually a nice twist somewhere along the way to l......more

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