William G. Tapply

William G. Tapply (1940 - July 28, 2009), an American author also known as Bill Tapply, and best known for his Brady Coyne mystery novels, penned more than forty books during his twenty-five year novel writing career and nearly a thousand magazine articles during his lifetime. He was a Contributing Editor for Field & Stream and a columnist for American Angler. With his wife, author Vicki Stiefel, he ran The Writers Studio at Chickadee Farm from which they mentored young writers.

Biography

William G. Tapley, born in Waltham, Massachusetts, grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts where he graduated from Lexington High School. He added a B.A. from Amherst College and an M.A.T. from Harvard to his arsenal before launching his first career as a teacher Lexington High School, where he worked for nearly twenty-five years.

Although he always found time for his love of teaching (Lexington High, Concord High, Emerson College, Clark University, and, The Writers Studio at Chickadee Farm), in the early 1980s he began to share his love of the written word with the world, with magazine articles in such publications as Field & Stream, and Sports Illustrated. In 1984, he published his first novel, Death at Charity's Point.

For most of his career as a novelist, he lived in Hancock, N.H. At this writing, fans of the Brady Coyne novels have twenty-three pure Brady Coyne and tree Brady Coyne/J.W. Jackson mysteries to read. Readers who crave more also have access to three Stoney Calhoun mysteries, and fifteen non-fiction books on writing, fishing and life outdoors.

Published Books

In addition to his books, William G. Tapply published nearly a thousand magazine articles. The following lists focus on his books.

Novels

Brady Coyne Mystery Novels

• Death at Charity's Point, Scribner, 1984.
• The Dutch Blue Error, Scribner, 1985.
• Follow the Sharks, Scribner, 1985.
• The Marine Corpse, Scribner 1986.
• Dead Meat, Scribner, 1987.
• The Vulgar Boatman, Scribner, 1987.
• A Void in Hearts, Scribner, 1988.
• Dead Winter, Delacorte, 1989.
• Client Privilege, Delacorte, 1989.
• The Spotted Cats, Delacorte, 1991.
• Tight Lines, Delacorte, 1992.
• The Snake Eater, Otto Penzler Books, 1993.
• The Seventh Enemy, Otto Penzler Books, 1995.
• Close to the Bone, St. Martin's Press, 1996.
• Cutter's Run, St. Martin's Press, 1998.
• Muscle Memory, St. Martin's Press, 1999.
• Scar Tissue, St. Martin's Press, 2000.
• Past Tense, St. Martin's Press, 2001.
• A Fine Line, St. Martin's Press, 2002.
• Shadow of Death, St. Martin's Press, 2003.
• Nervous Water, St. Martin's Press, 2005.
• Out Cold, St. Martin's Press, 2006.
• One Way Ticket, St. Martin's Press, 2007.

Brady Coyne/J.W. Jackson Mystery Novels

• First Light, St. Martin's Press, 2001.
• Second Sight, St. Martin's Press, 2004.
• Third Strike, St. Martin's Press, 2007.

Stoney Calhoun Mystery Novels

• Bitch Creek, The Lyons Press, 2004.
• Gray Ghost, St. Martin's Press, 2007.
• Dark Tiger, 2009

Non-fiction Works

• Those Hours Spent Outdoors, Scribner, 1988.
• Opening Day and Other Neuroses, Lyons and Burford, 1990.
• Home Water Near and Far, Lyons and Burford, 1992.
• Sportsman's Legacy, Lyons and Burford, 1993.
• Thicker Than Water, a romance/suspense novel co-written with Linda Barlow, published in 1995 by Signet.
• The Elements of Mystery Fiction, a resource for aspiring mystery writers, was first published by The Writer, Inc. in 1995, and reissued by Poisoned Pen Press in 2004.
• A Fly-fishing Life, The Lyons Press, 1997.
• Bass Bug Fishing, The Lyons Press, 1999.
• Upland Days, The Lyons Press, 2000.
• A Brady Coyne Omnibus, containing three Brady Coyne novels, published by St. Martin's in 2000.
• Pocket Water, The Lyons Press, 2001.
• The Orvis Pocket Guide to Fly Fishing for Bass, The Lyons Press, 2001.
• Gone Fishin', The Lyons Press, 2004.
• Trout Eyes, Skyhorse Publishing, 2007.
• Upland Autumn, 2009

External links

• William G. Tapply home page

Category:1940 births Category:2009 deaths Category:American mystery writers Category:American crime fiction writers Category:American novelists Category:Writers from New Hampshire Category:Writers from Massachusetts Category:People from Lexington, Massachusetts Category:People from New Hampshire

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