{"product_id":"third-strike-a-brady-coynej-w-jackson-mystery-9781451624939","title":"Third Strike: A Brady Coyne\/J. W. Jackson Mystery","description":"\u003cb\u003eEminent 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThird Strike\u003c\/i\u003e is crime fiction at its best.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe late Philip R. Craig was the author of nineteen novels in the Martha's Vineyard Mystery series. A professor emeritus of English at Wheelock College in Boston, he loved the Vineyard and lived there year-round with his wife, Shirley. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilliam G. Tapply was a professor of English at Clark University. The author of twenty-one Brady Coyne novels and ten books about fly-fishing and the outdoors, he was also a columnist for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Angler\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and a contributing editor for several other outdoors publications. He lived with his wife, novelist Vicki Stiefel, in Hancock, New Hampshire.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50850423472402,"sku":"9781451624939","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_227bf964-69f5-4529-80db-3f102aa120e6.jpg?v=1737411786","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/third-strike-a-brady-coynej-w-jackson-mystery-9781451624939","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}