Death at Charity's Point
Brady Coyne Mysteries Series, Book 1
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Death at Charity's Point
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Narrateur(s):
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Stephen Hoye
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Auteur(s):
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William G. Tapply
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A Boston lawyer investigates a prep school teacher's suspicious suicide in this debut for "one of the most likeable sleuths to appear on the crime scene" (The Washington Post Book World).
Brady Coyne never meant to become the private lawyer to New England's upper crust, but after more than a decade working for Florence Gresham and her friends, he has developed a reputation for discretion that the rich cannot resist. He is fond of Mrs. Gresham - unflappable, uncouth, and never tardy with a check - and he has seen her through her husband's suicide and her first son's death in Vietnam. But he has never seen her crack until the day her second son, George, leaps into the sea at jagged Charity's Point.
The authorities call it a suicide, but Mrs. Gresham cannot believe her son, like his father, would take his own life. As Brady digs into the apparently blemish-free past of this upper-class prep school history teacher, he finds dark secrets. George Gresham may not have been suicidal, but that doesn't mean he wasn't in trouble.
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Then, I googled and found out Death At Charity Point 's first date of publication; it's 1984. Ah. Gotcha; an obviously pale-skinned, male reviewer was writing for WaPo. In 1984. That explains his love of main-character Brady Coyne. I highly doubt that women and Persons of Colour men found him likeable. At all.
In 2026, not many men would like Brady Coyne, and even fewer would praise him in a published, book review. William G. Tapply presents the reader with a man who believes that kissing his new assistant without any invitation to do so is normal, acceptable behaviour (even back in 1984, many men and women did not find it so); who further believes that telling a woman he's surprised someone of her professional competency is pretty constitutes an appreciated compliment; who approaches experts (in various fields) quite condescendingly; who rejects with derision a White Supremacist's rote statements, yet in the very next scene expresses ignorant, insulting, racist beliefs; and who employs circular reasoning to interpret another man's actions.
William G. Tapply's Brady Coyne has no qualities that might qualify him to be an anti-hero; he's simply a conceited a-hole.
Very racist, sexist (going so far as to believe that assaulting a woman is fine), entitled main character
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