Another good Brady Coyne novel. Brady gets a call late one night from Jack Gold, a long-time friend and client who reports that his son and girlfriend have been in a car accident. Jenny, Brian’s girl friend, had been driving and their car left the road on a curve and crashed down a hillside into a frozen river. Jenny’s body has been recovered but there is no sign of Brian. Brady travels up to their house to console and has a conversation with the highly respected local police chief. But things start to go awry (here I have a minor problem with the way Tapply handles the timing, but it had me turning pages back several times to try to figure out an apparent time lapse.) Brady gets a call from Jack, who has split up from his younger wife Sharon, who is unable to reconcile with the apparent death of her son. He has some important information that he wants to show Brady. When he doesn’t show for the appointment, Brady becomes concerned and tracks him down to a seedy motel where no one answers the door. When police are summoned, they discover the body of the police chief.

Anything more would be a spoiler. Solid mystery. Tapply is consistently enjoyable. My favorite character is Horowitz. ( )

A Brady Coyne Mysery. Brady Coyne is a laid back lawyer in Boston, When the teenage son of good friends and his girlfriend are in a terrible accident and when the girl drowns and Brian disappears, he drives to the small town to console his friends. The the father disappears and things start looking fishy to Brady, until the "nice" police chief of the small town is found dear ina motel room Brady's friend had rented.
Mediocre story, but good characters.

Jacob Gold called Brady about his son Brian who is missing & girlfriend kiled in a car accident. Sharon, Jacob's wife, is beside herself - losing her husband & possibly her son. Sprague was found at a motel dead from a gunshot wound. Brady finds Jacob dead at the chief of police (Sprague) farm home. Brian surfaces. Come to find out there was a sex group & pictures were taken. Two cops (Nash & Stone) were involved & tried to kill Brady.

Brady's old friend's son dies in a car accident with his girlfriend. Brady discovers it's not an accident and the son has a dark secret that involves corruption in a small Massachusetts town. This is the 3rd Tapply novel I've read and didn't think it was quite as good as Out Cold and Nervous Water. ( )