William G. Tapply has a mystery series about a Boston attorney named Brady Coyne. There have been 15 previous Brady Coyne books. Now Mr. Tapply has brought Brady back in an all-new mystery called Muscle Memory. It was published by St. Martin's Press and copyrighted in 1999.

Brady is hanging out in one of his favorite bars and he's talking with Mick Fallon. There is an altercation and Mick throws some guys out of the bar. Some time later, Mick asks Brady to represent him in his divorce case. Mick wants to stay married but his wife doesn't.

Brady goes through the motions of helping Mick with the divorce, finding out that his client has a gambling addiction. Mick's wife, Kay, has a shark of an attorney who is after his blood. The attorney feels that Mick has hidden assets and wants to make sure that Kay gets her fair share. What Kay actually gets is murdered.

Brady has to set out to solve the murder and prove that Mick didn't do it. He goes through a whole mire of twists and turns as he tries to uncover the truth. Did Kay have a lover and the romance went bad? What was Kay's best friend hiding? Was Mick's gambling debt so huge that Kay was killed as an object lesson? These and other questions Brady must answer before he can get Mick free of the murder charge.

Muscle Memory is another fine addition to the Brady Coyne series. Just when you've got the murder figured out, there is another element introduced to throw up a roadblock. The identity of the killer surprised me. But that's the mark of a good mystery writer, moving you down one path while the answer actually lies on another. I hope that the Brady Coyne books keep coming.