No Regrets Coyote A Novel Author:John Dufresne For readers of Elmore Leonard and Dennis Lehane, a South Florida noir from the best-selling author of Louisiana Power & Light.On Christmas Eve in Eden, Florida, Wylie ?Coyote? Melville, therapist and forensic consultant, is summoned to a horrific crime scene. Five members of the Halliday family have been brutally killed. Wylie?s rare talent is a... more »n ability to read a crime scene, consider the evidence seen and unseen, and determine what?s likely to have happened. The police are soon convinced that the deaths were a murder-suicide carried out by a broken and desperate Chafin Halliday, but Wylie?s not so sure.
As Wylie begins his own investigation with the help of his friend Bay Lettique?a poker-playing sleight-of-hand artist with links to the Everglades County underworld?he discovers a web of corruption involving the police union, Ponzi-scheming lawyers, county politicians, and the Russian mob. What follows is a heart-stopping, edgy novel that introduces a completely original crime solver.« less