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Defending a client, Brady gets himself implicated in a murder charge 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 show more affair Pops conducted with a younger woman. Pops sends Brady, his genteel Boston lawyer, to tell the reporter he won't be getting any money. Soon after their meeting, the blackmailer is found dead. Brady refuses to name his client, and finds himself under suspicion of murder. Brady will do whatever it takes to keep Pops out of the papers. If he's lucky, he may even keep himself out of jail. show lessTags
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I really enjoyed this book. Brady's client, a judge, is up for a supreme court position and is being blackmailed for something that happened 18 years ago. The same night that Brady meets the blackmailer, he's murdered making Brady a suspect who must also protect his client's confidence.
Brady is contacted by Judge Chester Y. "Pops" Popowski to meet someone at Skeeters that he says is trying to backmail him. The guy he meets turns up dead hours later. He's also a newscaster at one of the local stations. The name Karen Lavoie comes up and Karen's father is the murderer.
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William G. Tapply was born in Waltham, Massachusetts on July 16, 1940. He graduated from Harvard University in 1963. He wrote more than 40 books during his lifetime including the Brady Coyne mysteries series, the Stoney Calhoun Novel series, and numerous non-fiction books about fly fishing and the outdoors. He was also a contributing editor for show more Field and Stream, a columnist for American Angler, and part of The Writer magazine editorial board. He was an English professor at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts and ran The Writers Studio at Chickadee Farm with his wife Vicki Stiefel. He died on July 28, 2009 after a battle with leukemia. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- Client Privilege
- Original publication date
- 1990
- People/Characters
- Brady Coyne; Xerxes (Zerk) Garrett (Zerk); Skeeter
- Important places
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Popularity
- 322,727
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
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- Languages
- English, Italian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 5
