Entries from Westport Public Library BOOK blog tagged with 'legal'
Meanwhile, back at the reservation ...
Denver author Margaret Coel returns to the Wind River Reservation of Wyoming in The Silent Spirit, a new mystery featuring John Aloysius O’Malley, a Jesuit missionary, and Vicky Holden, an Arapaho attorney. Father John and Vicky delve into the reservation's past when an Arapaho and his great-grandson are murdered nearly a century apart.Too abrupt an ending
William G. Tapply died July 28, 2009 at his home in Hancock, NH, after a battle with leukemia. He was 69. Beginning with Death at Charity’s Point in 1984, he wrote twenty seven mysteries featuring Boston sports fisherman and lawyer-turned crime solver Brady Coyne. This includes three mysteries he co-wrote with the late Philip R. Craig in which Coyne teams up with Craig’s Martha’s Vineyard detective J. W. Jackson. “I put Bill up with Robert Parker,’’ said Kate Mattes—owner of Kate’s Mystery Books, the venerable Cambridge store—in Tapply’s Boston Globe obituary. With Brady Coyne, Tapply created “a Spenser-like character, but more polished. He was a lawyer with Brahmin clients who always wanted to keep the police out of it.’’ “He had a very nice writing style and was one of the best plotters of all the mystery authors in the New England region.’’On the Vineyard
The late Philip R. Craig was the author of nineteen novels in the Martha's Vineyard Mystery series, including the recently released Vineyard Chill. He loved the Vineyard and lived there year-round with his wife, Shirley. Craig’s protagonist is J.W. “Jeff” Jackson who has retired -- more or less -- to the Vineyard. His family gets by on his Boston PD pension and his wife’s income as a nurse, living on the cheap with furniture salvaged from the town dump and a fourteen year old Landcruiser. J.W. often puts dinner on the table by fishing and clam digging, and is a superb cook. The Jacksons are a refreshing change of pace.When Johnny comes marching home
PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – is an acronym that has passed into common parlance these days. Two new mysteries incorporate this timely issue. John Lescroart’s Betrayal tells the story of Evan Scholler, a young National Guard reservist riddled with “survivor guilt” who is having difficulty readjusting to civilian life after his service in Iraq. Seven men in Scholler’s platoon, as well as an innocent Iraqi family, were killed in a deadly incident because of the apparent mistakes of an ex-Navy SEAL and private contractor named Ron Nolan. Scholler publicly vows to kill him, and when Nolan is indeed murdered, is convicted of the crime.Location, location, location!
Although there is a certain appeal in exotic locales, I truly enjoy a story set in a place that I know well.
There are many mysteries set in popular summer travel destinations.
Martha’s Vineyard is home to Cynthia Riggs’s character Victoria Trumbull, an astute 92-year old Vineyard native and deputy police officer as well as Philip R. Craig’s Jefferson “J. W.” Jackson, a 30-something ex-Boston cop.
Like father, like daughter
Mystery writer Alafair Burke is the daughter of acclaimed writer James Lee Burke.
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