William G. Tapply Books In Order

Brady Coyne Books In Publication Order

  1. Death at Charity’s Point (1984)
  2. The Dutch Blue Error (1984)
  3. Follow the Sharks (1985)
  4. The Marine Corpse / A Rodent of Doubt (1986)
  5. Dead Meat (1987)
  6. The Vulgar Boatman (1987)
  7. A Void in Hearts (1988)
  8. Dead Winter (1989)
  9. Client Privilege (1990)
  10. The Spotted Cats (1991)
  11. Tight Lines (1992)
  12. The Snake Eater (1993)
  13. The Seventh Enemy (1995)
  14. Close to the Bone (1996)
  15. Cutter’s Run (1998)
  16. Muscle Memory (1999)
  17. Scar Tissue (2000)
  18. Past Tense (2001)
  19. A Fine Line (2002)
  20. Shadow of Death (2003)
  21. Nervous Water (2005)
  22. Out Cold (2006)
  23. One-Way Ticket (2007)
  24. Hell Bent (2008)
  25. Outwitting Trolls (2010)

Brady Coyne/J.W. Jackson Books In Publication Order

  1. First Light (2001)
  2. Second Sight (2004)
  3. Third Strike (2007)

Stoney Calhoun Books In Publication Order

  1. Bit*ch Creek (2004)
  2. Gray Ghost (2007)
  3. Dark Tiger (2009)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Thicker Than Water (1995)
  2. The Nomination (2011)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Those Hours Spent Outdoors (1988)
  2. Opening Day and Other Angling Neuroses (1990)
  3. Home Water, Near and Far (1992)
  4. Sportsman’s Legacy (1993)
  5. A Fly-Fishing Life (1997)
  6. Bass Bug Fishing (1999)
  7. Upland Days (2000)
  8. Pocket Water (2001)
  9. The Orvis Pocket Guide To Fly Fishing for Bass (2003)
  10. The Elements Of Mystery Fiction (2004)
  11. Gone Fishin’ (2004)
  12. Trout Eyes (2007)
  13. Upland Autumn (2009)
  14. Every Day Was Special (2010)

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William G. Tapply Books Overview

Death at Charity’s Point

The first of fourteen Brady Coyne mysteries; the fifteenth, Cutter’s Run, publishes July 1998 from St. Martin’s Press. Charity won the 1984 Scribner Crime Novel Award.A legal thriller without a courtroom? A lawyer who’s actually a nice guy? Here’s the brief…
The Lawyer…
Boston’s Brady Coyne is keyed way down. He’d rather fish than fight. When he’s full of beans, they’re from a can, washed down with beer. He’s not partnership material legal or matrimonial. Barrister to the Brahmins through a quirk of Fate, Brady finds his clients usually demand his personal, discreet attention. The Client…
Elderly Florence Gresham is wealthy and whipcord tough. A realist, she’s accepted the loss of her elder son to the jungles of Vietnam and the suicide of her husband. But when her scholarly, reclusive younger son steps off a cliff, Florence won’t buy the coroner’s obvious conclusion. The Case…
What happened to George? His mother wants Brady to uncover the truth. She offers an incentive: a hefty percentage of the double indemnity life insurance policy payoff assuming, of course, that Brady overturns the suicide verdict. And low key or not, barrister Brady likes to win…

Dead Meat

EVERYONE IS GUILTY OF SOMETHING…
In comtemporary Russia the old ghosts have been laid to rest, but the stench of corruption is just as strong as ever. Now a top level Moscow investigator, dispatched to St. Petersburg, is about to discover just how deep the decadence runs in both the corridors of power and the labyrinth of the human heart. The man from Moscow has been teamed up with Grushko, a palm reading local detective with Elvis Presley hair. Together they embark on a investigation into the brutal murder of a famous and controversial journalist. To Grushko, an expert in the ruthlessness of the rising Russian Mafia, the killing has all the earmarks of a professional hit. But in the new Russia appearances have almost as little value as the new ruble. Soon the focus of the investigation will fall on the journalist’s widow, a pinup beauty whom one detective will find impossible to trust…
the other to resist. Author Bio:

The Spotted Cats

With his client, Jeff Newton, a professional hunter, lying near death the victim of an attack by an African cat Brady must investigate the disappearance of Newton’s priceless pre Columbian treasure by himself. NYT. PW.

Close to the Bone

Brady Coyne’s friend Paul Cizek is burned out from his job as a defense lawyer, and when his empty fishing boat is found adrift on the seas, Brady must figure out whether his friend committed suicide, was murdered, or had an accident.

Cutter’s Run

Attorney Brady Coyne is on his way back home to Boston from his usual weekend commute to bucolic Garrison, Maine, when he gives Charolotte Gillespie a ride home from taking her sick dog to the veterinarian. But Brady suspects the soft spoken African American woman has personal reasons for choosing to live way off the beaten track in an isolated hunting shack, especially when he notices swastika graffiti on her property and learns her dog was poisoned. And when Charlotte sends him a cryptic letter requesting his legal services, only to disappear days later, leaving no clue as to her whereabouts except more spray painted swastikas on her land Brady knows something’s very wrong. Now he’s taken on a case for an invisible client, in a town where gossip flows freely, but truth is locked away behind closed doors and blank stares. Suddenly, the quaint little New England hamlet doesn’t seem quite so friendly anymore. And as Brady follows the trail that brought Charlotte to Garrison months earlier, someone who may now be guilty of double homicide is following close on his heels someone who’s prepared to silence him for good.

Muscle Memory

WHEN A HUSBAND’S LIE…
Attorney Brady Coyne has found his bar buddy Mick Fallon former Detroit Pistons’ star brooding in his beer. His wife Kaye’s just stunned him with a file for divorce, and she’s taking him for everything. What Mick needs is a weapon like Brady to fight back. What Brady needs first is for Mick to come clean about his troubled marriage. BETRAYS A WIFE’S SECRET…
What’s no mystery is Mick’s hair trigger temper and gambling habit that’s left him deep in debt to a local mobster. It’s the third strike against him that’s the eye opener Kaye’s sudden brutal murder. With a motive that could hang him and an alibi nobody believes, Mick looks as guilty as sin especially after he disappears. ONLY MURDER CAN REVEAL THE TRUTH. Now Brady’s left to defend a man wanted for murder and on the run from his secrets. But it’s Brady’s investigation into Kaye’s private life that yields the most surprising secrets of all. As each one unfolds they bring Brady closer to the truth about the crimes of the heart that could claim one more life before they’re exposed…

Scar Tissue

Brady Coyne is an attorney with a select clientele and a small practice he handles mostly the boring paperwork such as deeds, wills, and divorces and leaves the more exciting aspects of the legal profession to others. A call from Jacob Gold, an old friend and client, on a cold February day, however, shatters the slow pace of Brady’s life. Gold’s fifteen year old son Brian and Brian’s girlfriend Jenny were involved in a tragic accident. Their car went off the road and into a river Jenny was DOA and Brian is missing, his body probably swept away by the river’s current. With the parents paralyzed by grief, Brady divorced with two sons of his own agrees to help as much as he can. But what seems a simple, if tragic, situation quickly becomes complicated. The accident scene makes no sense to Brady, the police chief of this quiet, middle class Boston suburb seems particularly eager to be rid of Brady and then Jacob Gold moves out of his home and disappears. For the sake of his friends and clients, and for their child, Brady must now find out the truth that lurks behind this tragedy before yet another innocent life is lost.

A Fine Line

Walt Duffy spent his life traveling the world, documenting the beauty and wonder of nature through the lens of a camera. But there was nothing natural about the ugly way he died, his skull fractured by an unknown assailant, his broken body left sprawled right in his own backyard. The irony wasn’t lost on Boston attorney Brady Coyne. He first met Duffy while handling his divorce a decade earlier, and their relationship evolved into a working friendship. He knew Duffy well, or so Brady thought. That belief is about to be put to the test when Coyne is brought in for questioning by both the local police and the FBI, who reveal Duffy’s ties to a notorious ecoterrorist group that is currently setting fires to homes and offices around the Boston area. And when Brady begins to get mysterious calls in the middle of the night, warning of the next fire to be set, he knows that he has become an unwilling pawn in a chess game with the deadliest of consequences.

Shadow of Death

Boston attorney Brady Coyne has just received a call from Jimmy D’Ambrosio, a Democratic party kingmaker and acting campaign manager for prosecutor Ellen Stoddard, who’s running for a Senate seat. She’s got a real shot at becoming the state’s first woman to hold the post, except for one thing: her husband Albert, a college professor and Brady’s occasional fishing partner, has been acting strangely, and now he’s disappeared altogether.D’Ambrosio wonders if Albert’s having a romantic dalliance with a coed, or if some other scandal is threatening to break. Either way, the campaign can’t be involved, so he wants Coyne to investigate and keep any threatening skeletons locked firmly away in the closet. But after Coyne uncovers evidence of a murder, D’Ambrosio claims client attorney privilege and threatens to have him disbarred if he leaks a word of the case to anyone. But Brady refuses to drop the case, and follows the trail to the little town of Southwick, New Hampshire, where an idyllic fa ade hides a terrible secret. And as the campaign draws to a climax, it seems that Brady Coyne has just been elected most likely to be the next to die.

Nervous Water

In one of the finest novels yet in Tapply’s long running series, Nervous Water explores the previously hidden past of his much beloved character, Boston attorney Brady Coyne. Contacted by an aged relative with whom he’d long lost touch, Brady agrees to help his Uncle Moze with a sensitive family matter. Having received a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Moze is looking to mend fences with his only daughter. But the daughter seems to have simply disappeared, leaving no clues or hints as to her whereabouts. As Brady tackles the seemingly impossible task of finding his cousin a case that looks less and less like a simple missing person case it becomes clear that whatever is going on now is related to a dark, undiscussed episode in his family’s past: the brutal, still unsolved murder of another of Brady’s uncles.

Out Cold

Brady Coyne is a Boston attorney, whose routine legal work and sedate lifestyle usually keep him far away from trouble. Unfortunately, one cold January morning, trouble comes to him. When Brady lets his dog out into the backyard of his Back Bay brownstone, he finds a girl buried under the snow in Brady’s back yard. A teenager, maybe fifteen or sixteen, who had apparently crawled into the backyard, bleeding, in the middle of the night, only to die from hypothermia and blood loss. The singular clue to her identity is a small piece of paper with the brownstone’s address scribbled on it. Now Brady is determined to find out who the girl was, why she had his address, and what happened to her. But the mysterious girl’s death is only the beginning someone out there knows Brady is trying to find out what happened that night and is willing to do anything, or kill anyone, to keep the truth from coming out.

One-Way Ticket

Boston attorney Brady Coyne has a generally placid life with a nice house, a stable relationship, and the occasional fishing trip with old friends. But one balmy June evening, that quiet life begins to fall apart after Brady receives a frantic phone call from his friend and client Dalton Lancaster. Dalt is in the emergency room, having been severely beaten by a group of thugs who warned him that he has a week to pay off his debt. Even worse, the message comes directly from Paulie Russo, the head of the Boston mob. Dalt swears he has no such debt, but when Brady tries to intercede, Russo lets him know he is holding Brady responsible for his client’s obligation. Then Dalt disappears and no one seems to know whether he’s fled for his life or been murdered until the ransom demand arrives. While Brady tries to rescue Dalt, and himself, from the escalating situation, his live in girlfriend Evie buys a one way ticket to California to care for her dying father, leaving Brady to wonder when or if she will return.

Hell Bent

Boston attorney Brady Coyne finds his own past coming back to haunt his professional life when his ex girlfriend Alex Shaw, long out of touch, reappears, wanting Brady to represent her brother. Augustine Shaw was a notable photo journalist, happily married with two small children until he returned from a stint in Iraq missing a hand and suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Now he’s lost his career, his peace of mind and his family. Brady is hired to seem him through the divorce. The client wasn t eager to accept Brady s representation, but before the divorce proceedings are very far along, the photographer is found dead in his rented apartment, an apparent suicide. But something isn t right and Brady starts to think the suicide was staged. With very little to go on and with everyone around him wanting to quickly close the books on what appears to be a tragic case, Brady soon finds himself alone, in the midst of one of the most dangerous situations of his entire life, and facing people who do anything to avoid being exposed.

Outwitting Trolls

Brady Coyne is a Boston attorney who focuses on a few private clients and the legal drudgery of their everyday life, which leads to a generally unexciting life. Brady, however, gets a call from an old friend and former neighbor a man from his past as a happily married man. When Brady was married and living in suburbia, Ken Nichols was his happily married neighbor. Both marriages fell apart years ago and Brady moved to Boston while Ken Nichols moved to Baltimore. Now a decade later and in Boston for a conference, Ken contacts Brady for a get together and a drink. It’s an uneventful evening but the next day Brady gets a call from Nichols ex wife. She s standing in her ex s hotel room, Nichols is lying dead on the floor of his room and she needs Brady s help. But this savage murder is only the first and Brady is soon trying to find the connection between these long ago friends and the savage murders dogging their family.

First Light

When two acclaimed crime novelists and fishing buddies, Philip R. Craig and William G. Tapply, join their remarkable talents, it’s the best of both worlds for readers of the first ever Brady Coyne/J. W. Jackson mystery. It’s September on Martha’s Vineyard, and J.W. is contemplating the serious matter of a tree house for his children and some good fishing in the annual striped bass and bluefish derby with his friend, Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, who’ll be on the island to help the elderly Sarah Fairchild write her will. J.W. has a little business, too, having reluctantly agreed to spend some of his valuable surf casting time trying to find a missing woman named Katherine Bannerman, who was last seen on the island a year ago. For Brady and J.W. it’ll be law and detecting during the day, but by night they will roam the far Vineyard beaches in search of prizewinning catches. But soon another woman goes missing, a local bully threatens both Brady and J.W., and Brady discovers that more than a few people desperately crave his client’s estate. With two hundred acres of pristine Vineyard land in a frail, elderly woman’s control, the stakes are high. For J.W., his case gets personal when someone slashes his wife’s tires. As J.W. prowls the Vineyard’s villages in search of the slasher and the two missing women and Brady defends his client’s interests against an array of warring factions, the two friends come to suspect that a killer is loose on the island. What they do not know is that they themselves will soon be in danger. People are not always what they seem, and there are snakes under the rocks, even in Eden. By turns charming and suspenseful, contemporary and evocative, First Light could only have been imagined in the collective mind of these two superb authors. Includes three recipes.

Second Sight

Martha’s Vineyard is abuzz with excitement. International pop superstars, top politicians, a former president and the social elite will gather at a fundraising extravaganza featuring singer Evangeline. Fisherman/sleuth J. W. Jackson takes a job as Evangeline’s driver. His Boston lawyer pal, Brady Coyne, is also on the Vineyard trying to locate a dying client’s daughter. But things turn serious when the Celebration’s director is found murdered.

Third Strike

Eminent mystery authors Philip R. Craig and William G. Tapply team up for a richly nuanced new installment in the Brady Coyne/J. W. Jackson series that is a tribute not only to two witty, smart fictional sleuths but also to the enduring friendship of their creators. It’s late August, just when thousands of vacationers on beautiful Martha’s Vineyard are preparing to go home so the kids can return to school. There’s a problem, though. A union has gone on strike, paralyzing the Steamship Authority, which runs the ferries to ‘America,’ and creating panic and anger among many tourists and islanders alike. When an explosion destroys a boat’s engine room and kills the striker who apparently planted the bomb, J. W. Jackson, once a Boston cop but now an island man of all work, reluctantly agrees to the widow’s pleas that he attempt to prove her husband innocent of the crime. As J.W. begins inquiries, he discovers a complex series of relationships among strikers, scabs, and boat owners, and encounters violence of his own. Meanwhile, Boston attorney Brady Coyne gets a call from a former client now living full time on the Vineyard, who tells him about a group of armed men loading and unloading mysterious crates at a dock at midnight. Jackson and Coyne get together and discover that not only are their cases connected but that time is running out for them to prevent a crime that could have international ramifications and their only hope will be to confront dedicated killers face to face…
. With its winning contrast of page turning suspense and evocative Vineyard ambiance, ‘Third Strike‘ is crime fiction at its best.

Bit*ch Creek

‘Tapply is…
a worthy successor to Hammett and both MacDonalds Ross and John.’ Chicago Tribune ‘

Only a few writers of crime fiction have managed to generate prose this leanly poetic in the service of their hard boiled stories. Tapply does it all the time.’ The Boston Globe

William G. Tapply has created a fresh new world in Bit*ch Creek, a steamy, perfectly crafted mystery introducing Stoney Calhoun, an unlikely hero. Stoney is a man without a past. A lightning strike obliterated his memory, and, as so many might like to do, he was given a chance to completely reinvent himself. That’s not an easy task when a man doesn’t know the slightest thing about himself. But Stoney was driven by some current within and ended up as a fishing guide in Maine. He’s reeducating himself, he’s in love, and life is good until his friend and fellow fishing guide is murdered and Stoney suspects that he himself was the target. In a riveting process of revelation, Stoney begins investigating the murder and learns to his surprise that he is, in fact, a trained investigator. The process of discovering the murderer is also a process of self discovery. Tapply has introduced an unlikely, yet intensely likeable protagonist. He has fashioned an ingenious plot simultaneously unfolding layers of personality and intrigue in his stunning new novel.

Gray Ghost

Seven years ago, Stoney Calhoun woke up in a VA hospital with no memories. He still remembers nothing from before then, except that he has a few unexplained skills a gift for angling, an ability to read French and recently it’s been made clear to him that it would be best if he never does. Working as a guide on Casco Bay, Stoney is out with a client on an early morning fly fishing expedition when they find the charred remains of a recent corpse on a small, uninhabited island. A couple of days later, Calhoun’s client turns up in the driveway of Stoney’s cabin in the woods shot dead in the front seat of his SUV. In the midst of a couple of inexplicable murders, both of which clearly have something to do with Stoney, past or present, it’s up to him find out the truth…
or risk becoming the next victim.

Dark Tiger

Seven years ago, Stoney Calhoun woke up in a VA hospital with no memories and a series of unexplained talents language ability, weapons expertise, etc.. Since then he’s been living quietly, working as a part time fishing guide and co owner of a local bait shop with an unnamed visitor coming around occasionally to see if he s regained any memories. But this time, the visitor shows up looking for his help and creating potential mayhem in Stoney s life to prove he s serious. In exchange for making those problems go away, Stoney must go to the far corner of Maine, sign on as a guide at a high end fishing lodge, and look into a couple of suspicious deaths. A govern ment operative was found shot dead in a staged murder/suicide pact involving a local sixteen year old girl. Now Stoney has to uncover what the dead agent was investigating and got him killed without being killed by the very same people.

The Nomination

The last novel of the beloved author of the Brady Coyne mystery series. The Nomination is a fast paced action and suspense thriller that brings events from the final days of the Vietnam War into direct conflict with contemporary American politics. Vietnam War hero and Massachusetts Judge Thomas Larrigan is hand picked by his friend the president to fill the upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court. Larrigan seems like the perfect candidate: a family man with an uncontroversial judicial record. The president’s credibility needs a sure bet. Larrigan will do anything to win The Nomination, but he has some old skeletons rattling around in his closet. He calls his old Marine buddy, now a hit man, to sweep the closet clean. But there are a few skeletons Larrigan doesn t know are still alive. The Nomination is the story of how lives can intersect in deception, desperation, revelation, death, and, ultimately, redemption.

Bass Bug Fishing

Bass Bug Fishing is the most exciting way to catch America’s favorite gamefish the black bass. These hard fighting fish are found in all of the lower forty eight states: in cold, deep northern lakes, fast moving streams, ponds, reservoirs, mighty rivers, and tiny creeks. No method of fishing for them is more productive or fun than using the surface bug. Bass Bug Fishing is a detailed and comprehensive guide to top water fly fishing for largemouth and smallmouth bass, covering everything anyone needs to know to enjoy the thrill of fly rodding for bass. Author William G. Tapply explores the history of bass bugs; the behavior of bass at various times of day and seasons of the year; how to recognize good bugging water; what types of tackle and gear are needed; how to select effective bass bugs; and the art of making your own. With color and black and white photographs throughout, Bass Bug Fishing will be an invaluable aid to anyone who uses a fly rod to fish for bass. 6 x 9, 160 pages, color photos, b&w photos William G. Tapply is a prolific author of books on the outdoors, including A Fly Fishing Life page 135 and Sportsman’s Legacy page 141, the Brady Coyne mystery novels, and numerous articles in Field & Stream, American Angler, and other periodicals. He has taught writing at Emerson College, Clark University, and The Writer’s Digest School.

Pocket Water

In this eclectic collection of essays twenty eight in all William Tapply moves with remarkable ease from the quirky to the lyrical to the downright hilarious. To wit, Tapply explores the frenzy that leads him to ‘forgo sleeping and eating and nursing important relationships and earning a living’ in order to be where the trout and bass are. He details the fly fishing corollaries of Murphy’s Law such as, ‘If you drop a reel onto the pavement, it’s your new Abel, not that old Pfleuger Medalist.’. He provides instructions on raising children to be trout fishing partners ‘Anticipate when they’ll get bored, and quit five minutes earlier.’. He ruminates on the art of tying flies ‘Pretty soon, it’s not enough to catch fish on flies you’ve tied yourself. You want to catch fish on flies you’ve invented.’ And lots more. Pocket Water is vintage Tapply for fans and newcomers alike. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4, 256 pages, illustrations

The Orvis Pocket Guide To Fly Fishing for Bass

Black bass both largemouth and smallmouth may be found in waters across North America. They are America’s most popular gamefish, and with good reason: They strike aggressively, fight hard, jump eagerly, reproduce wantonly, and grow large. Recently, high tech largemouth bass fishing has become big business but bass fishing can be kept simple and still be a lot of fun. The Orvis Pocket Guide To Fly Fishing for Bass sets forth the time honored American tradition of fishing for bass with a fly rod. Anyone who’s tried it will tell you that casting flies for bass is relaxing, loads of fun, and productive and that fishing with floating bugs is the most enjoyable of all. In a thorough and concise text, William G. Tapply reveals his cherished bass fishing techniques. From casting and retrieving, navigating, learning where and when to go, and rigging up, this book provides you with all the knowledge you’ll need to catch that prize bass. As part of the Orvis book collection and Pocket Guide series, Tapply’s book is destined to be the ultimate reference on bass fishing with a fly rod for years to come.

The Elements Of Mystery Fiction

The Elements Of Mystery Fiction: Writing the Modern Whonunit has guided and inspied mystery writersveterans as well as beginners for nearly a decade. Here William G. Tapply, with more than 20 popular mystery and suspense novels under his belt, isolates the crucial ‘elements’ of the mystery novels that publishers want to publish and readers want to read original plots, clever clues, sympathetic sleuths, memorable villains, multi dimensional supporting characters, true to life settings, sharp narrative hooks, and, of course, smooth writing. In clear readable prose using examples from many of our best contemporary mystery novelists, Tapply shows how the writer can create the pieces and fit them together to make a story you can’t put down. This new expanded edition of Elements contains original chapters by some of our best contemporary writers and most prominent personalities in the publishing world discussing writing and business issues that are vital to mystery writers in the 21st century.

Gone Fishin’

Here is longtime fly fishing writer William G. Tapply on the big and small pleasures of fishing, from fly tying, to hunting the big ones. In ‘Extreme Angling,’ Tapply dismisses the idea of fly fishing as ‘The Quiet Sport,’ with tales of grizzly attacks, rogue logs, and big water. In ‘Hexed,’ Tapply finds out that his local stream overstocked and overfished offers a lot more than he ever suspected. In ‘Paying Homage,’ he describes the mystical joys of the Beaverkill in upstate New York. In ‘Seven for the Road,’ he gives readers a peek at some of the most important things he stows in his tackle bag, including the books he carries on every trip. Included here, too, are: . There Oughta Be a Law . Coming Unstuck . Playing Guns . Bank Shots . Twiggling . Bass Bugging for Trout . The Gulper Rules . Zen and the Art of Jiggering . Treasure Hunting . A Tale of Two Ponds . Alaska on Our Own . Life List . The Sniper . Eastern Steelhead . The Fish of 1,000 Casts . Selective Perch . The Eternal Debate . The Upside Down Dun . Flymphs Reconsidered . Tap’s Bug . and many more It’s an inspiring collection, from a fisherman whose writing is well known and well respected.

Trout Eyes

Fly fishermen everywhere will enjoy these varied, witty, and engaging adventures by one of America’s finest outdoor writers. There is a long section on trout fishing called Brookies, Browns, and Bows, and another on the challenges and excitement of saltwater fly fishing, and an exciting group of memoirs about fishing near home and in far flung and often exotic places like the Minipi, Bighorn, and Norfolk rivers, where the trout can beggar the imagination, and where frustration can be the occupational hazard. Trout Eyes is a love letter to the fish we pursue and insects they eat and the waters in which they live.

Upland Autumn

Tales of New England bird hunting by an acclaimed novelist and sportsman. In this collection of original stories, highly acclaimed novelist and outdoor writer William Tapply shares his finest stories of bird hunting in the Northeast country. Every season for over thirty years, Tapply has hunted the fields and backcountry of New England. Tapply’s warmth and knack for evoking the subtle, telling details of the places and hunts that he loves will stir a new appreciation and excitement in every reader. With his dog Burt, Tapply takes the reader out to his best spots. These are hard charging tales of success and disappointment, anticipation and triumph familiar feelings to any experienced hunter. Tapply combines passion, wisdom, and wit in the nearly twenty stories presented in Upland Autumn. With rich prose and Tapply s strong eye for detail, this book is a fine testament to bird hunting, bird hunters, and the rugged country that they tread each and every season. For those who love to hunt and those who simply love great outdoor writing, this is Upland Autumn.

Every Day Was Special

A collection of y shing stories from acclaimed novelist and outdoorsman, William G. Tapply. ‘It’s been a lifelong, ever expanding journey, with many big sh and faraway waters and dramatic moments…
and yet I don t think any of those moments or any of those places or sh has thrilled me any more than seeing the twitch of my y line where it entered the muddy waters of my backyard pond…
In this collection of y shing stories from acclaimed novelist and outdoor writer William G. Tapply, the natural appeal of y shing comes to life. Each story in Every Day Was Special was previously published in Tapply s back page column, Reading the Currents in American Angler, or in Gray s Sporting Journal, or in Field & Stream. From Dam It to First Light to When Trout Get Antsy, these thirty re readable pieces are unique in their own ways, and yet, all are classic Tapply. These writings serve as testament to the thrill of shing, the inimitable energy of casting at daybreak, and the innocence of streamside summers.

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