Live Free or Die
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A Fine Line
Muscle Memory
Cutter's Run
Scar Tissue
Past Tense
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“Mystery lovers will thoroughly enjoy Brady and the other characters Tapply creates. They are sharply etched and, together with a deft narrative, make Tapply one of the best in the game.”
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“Tapply consistently delivers well-written, well-constructed and thoroughly entertaining mysteries, and his latest is no exception.”
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“Outstanding ⦠Electrifying ⦠Ingenious ⦠One of the most convincingly heroic and likable of contemporary sleuths.”
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“Suspense accents the complex plot, a puzzler to the end.”
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MUSCLE MEMORY
“Only a few writers of crime fiction have managed to prose this leanly poetic in the service of their hard-boiled stories. Tapply does it all the time.”
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“Well-told and compelling ⦠Tapply keeps you guessing right to the end.”
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“A splendid writer whose clean prose matches his clever plots and vivid, interesting characters.”
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SHADOW OF DEATH
Copyright © 2001 by William G. Tapply.
Cover photograph © Richard Hamilton Smith/Corbis.
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St. Martin's Paperbacks edition / November 2004
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eISBN 9781429981507
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2003046830