- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Minotaur Books; First Edition edition (Sep 19 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312337469
- ISBN-13: 978-0312337469
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 15.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 590 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #708,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
At the start of Tapply's entertaining 22nd Brady Coyne novel (after 2005's Nervous Water), the Boston lawyer's dog uncovers a pregnant teenager dying in his snow-covered backyard. After the coroner finds Brady's Beacon Hill address in the girl's pocket, Brady pursues the girl's identity among street kids, a couple of whom shortly turn up murdered. The investigation leaps forward when Brady's girlfriend, Evie Banyon, recognizes the girl from the morgue photos, and another clue leads to a defunct New Hampshire genetics lab. Brady heads north to question the geneticist who headed the lab and becomes convinced that the man has something to hide. In the page-turning denouement, Brady outfits himself commando-style to survey the scientist's secluded farmhouse and learn the truth. Longtime series fans will be most rewarded. (Oct.)
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
It's true that Boston attorney Brady Coyne likes to take life easy. But it's also true that when the occasional murder case drops in his lap, Brady is all too ready to take a few chances. This time murder lands literally in his backyard, in the form of the victim, a teenage girl whom Brady finds dead in the snow with his address in her pocket. But who is she? Finding the answer to that question proves easier than it seems at first, but tracking back the girl's life in an attempt to determine who killed her is a horse of another color. The trail leads Brady to New Hampshire and the home of a renegade doctor whose research may not be as innocent as it appears. Even with Brady out in the cold, on a solo stakeout, taking chances in triplicate, he's always a regular guy--somebody whose butt gets cold if he sits in the snow. So who can blame him for recklessly trying to put a little juice in his life? We would, too, if we had the nerve. Bill Ott
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Misleadingly Strong Beginning to an Implausible and Untidy Plot,
By Donald Mitchell "Jesus Loves You!" (Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 112,000 Helpful Votes Globally) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER) (#1 HALL OF FAME)
This review is from: Out Cold: A Brady Coyne Novel (Hardcover)
After letting his dog, Henry, out for exercise in the back garden one wintry morning, Brady Coyne notices a lump he cannot identify. At first, he thinks it's a boy. But it turns out to be a teenaged girl with blue lips who has no pulse. The EMTs quickly arrive and head off with the girl. Brady calls a friend at the Beacon Hill police station who knows nothing and finds out that the girl had also been bleeding from a call that his assistant, Julie, makes in which she pretends to be a copy . . . a fact which Brady hadn't noticed. By the end of the day, Brady has had a visit from a Boston homicide detective, Saundra Mendoza, and is developing a bad case of the guilts. The young woman is unidentified, but she died from the combination of a miscarriage (Brady suspects an illegal abortion) and hypothermia. Her possessions contained a slip of paper with Brady's address.Brady cannot leave it there and starts handing out color copies of the morgue shot of the young woman to homeless people. Over dinner at one of his old haunts, he picks up a homeless woman as a pro bono client who needs help with getting her kids back from foster homes. He gives her a copy of the photo as well. Things seem to be at a standstill after he makes a few calls on the homeless woman's behalf . . . until she turns up dead in an alley with Brady's card in her pocket. Someone gouged out her throat with a broken bottle. Now, Brady's guilt index is off the scale. He starts interviewing street walkers to find if they can identify the girl. Along the way, he gets a glimpse of a strange guy in an old van with bears for a logo on it. With more danger ahead, Brady plows on . . . ignoring requests from the police and his live-in girlfriend Evie (who's away on a business trip) to leave it alone. Before the story ends, Brady is on a one-man mission to find out what happened and to keep it from happening again. This story is top-notch through about the first half of the book. The suspense is great. The character development is fine. You care about the characters. There's a lot of mystery and misdirection. The story quickly falls apart after that. Most of the events that follow don't make much sense . . . even after you know what's been going on. In addition, the resolution makes you go back and question much of what happened in the first half of the book. It's as though the two parts of the book were written by two different people, who hadn't bothered to look at the other half of the book. In addition, much of the action remains unexplained . . . even after the book is over. So although I graded this book as a three, it's more like a five for the first half on the first reading (which you will revise downward to 3-4 after finishing the book) and 1-2 for the second half. Unless you are a devoted William Tapply fan, I suggest you skip this outing. There are many better offerings in this distinguished series.
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3.4 out of 5 stars (11 customer reviews) 6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
I adore Tapply and Coyne,
By Tina Avon - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Out Cold: A Brady Coyne Novel (Hardcover)
I rated this book as a 4 star because I am such a huge fan of Tapply and his character Brady Coyne.Had this been the very first Brady Coyne I had read, I would have rated a 3 stars. Why? Unfortunately, this one is very, very slow. While Tapply is not known for writing à la Patterson with car chases and extremely detailed accounts of the act of murder, he is ALWAYS capable of moving a storyline along at a good (great) pace. This book is the exception. While I am eternally grateful that Tapply has made very little detailed references to fishing in this book, the storyline of Coyne accidentally finding the body of a murdered girl is his back yard just does not have the bite that his other storylines usually have. Additionally, his intereaction with the people in his life such as Evie and Julie felt forced and almost like all the characters were not connecting. I did not feel my usual investment in the storyline. While Coyne was his usual fun, interesting character, this book just felt slightly off for me. I did manage to finish it and I will absolutely continue reading this series - I just was not devouring this book as I usually would with the other ones. However, because Tapply is such a strong author, I could not, in good conscience, rate him lower than a 4 star. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of his best!,
By Ayla's Gram - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Out Cold: A Brady Coyne Novel (Hardcover)
I too have read and usually enjoyed all of Tapply's books. I am very fond of his character Brady Coyne, but most of all I appreciate Tapply's use of the language. He tells a good story in such a way that I can easily SEE the action in my mind. This book held my attention as it moved right along; I couldn't put it down. I'm not sure I was reading the same book some of the other reviewers read. And BTW, there was nothing, neither pro nor con, concerning the legalization of abortion.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
A wild and not quite believable ending spoils an otherwise very enjoyable read,
By Neal C. Reynolds - Published on Amazon.com
'm becoming very much of a Brady Coyne fan, but this installment in the series is disappointing.Before I go further, I do want to correct one reviewer's claim that this makes any statements on the abortion issue. It doesn't.Henry, Brady Coyne's dog, discovers a teenage girl's body in the snow in the lawyer's back yard. The girl's death was caused by a miscarriage, not by an illegal abortionist, so whatever your view on that issue, don't expect Tapply to make any comments, pro or con, on that issue.Anyway, Coyne feels increasingly responsible for the girl's death because his address is ound in the girl's possession and he feels if he had only known of her presence in his yard earlier, he might have saved her life. So he finds himself investigating the circumstances of her death and this leads to more deaths.The suspense is great during the first half, but be prepared for an ending which requires considerable suspenson of disbelief with the introduction of a character who would have been admirably portrayed by Boris Karloff id this had been a 1940's movie.I recommend this to staunch fans of the series, but if you're not dedicated to reading EVERY Brady Coyne novel, this is one I think you can safely skip.
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