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“A very cool ride. If Raymond Chandler was reincarnated as a novelist in South Florida, he couldn’t nail it any better than Dufresne.”—Carl Hiaasen
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 an 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.
- Sales Rank: #357705 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-07-15
- Released on: 2013-07-08
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
Dufresne’s second crime novel (after Louisiana Power and Light, 1994) is another offbeat tour through the South (this time, Florida). The narrator-sleuth has the cringe-inducing name Wylie “Coyote” Melville. The premise hangs on Coyote’s supposed ability to read crime scenes at a glance; a detective sergeant within the Eden Police Department invites Coyote to look at and return to scenes, though Coyote is not a cop; he’s a therapist. The problem is that Coyote demonstrates very little of this intriguing skill; we get one scene in which he plays Holmes analyzing a room, but the rest we take on faith. The mystery here is that of a supposed murder-suicide, in which a wealthy restaurant owner apparently killed his wife and kids before turning the gun on himself. Coyote has a sense that the man was also a victim, and his search for the killer expands into the Florida underworld. A solid mystery and a provocative narrative voice make up for insufficient evidence of this forensic consultant’s skills. --Connie Fletcher
Review
“Ghoulishly funny. . . . Dufresne is an original talent.” (Marilyn Stasio - New York Times Book Review)
“Marvelous.” (Boston Globe)
“No matter how sad, ridiculous, terrifying, poignant, goofy, or heroic a particular passage, Dufresne seems to be having the time of his life.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
“A novel so good you want to throw a party for it. It’s tense, unnerving, fearless, and funny as hell. Beautifully rendered on every page, it may be a crime novel in name but it’s literature for the ages.” (Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River)
“John Dufresne has created a unique and compelling sleuth in Wylie “Coyote” Melville. His quirky adventures will keep you reading.” (James O. Born, author of the Bill Tasker series)
“Takes noir fiction and slivers it with shards of humor, ironic insight, and an almost hallucinogenic specificity. This is lean and honest storytelling that is as moving as it is engaging. Read this book. Believe me, you'll have no regrets!” (Andre Dubus III, author of Townie and House of Sand and Fog)
“Hilariously dark . . . brings to mind the work of such masters as Donald Westlake and Elmore Leonard. It's a lurid pleasure from beginning to end.” (Tom Perrotta)
“Sit back, put a cooler of beer by your chair, and settle in, you'll be here awhile: No Regrets, Coyote is impossible to close.” (Tom Franklin)
“Touching, nervy, richly detailed, and populated with a cast of characters who are utterly unique and terrifyingly real. Its humor is abundant and warm-hearted, and its detective hero is unlike any we've ever met before. American crime fiction has just gotten a lot more interesting.” (James W. Hall)
“Nelson DeMille meets Carl Hiassan, and the result (like the ending) is totally satisfying.” (James Grippando)
“An extraordinary novel. . . . Steeped in place, wholly original, it is, line-by-line, one of the best books I've read in a long time.” (Laura Lippman)
“Engrossing crime drama from a gifted writer, No Regrets, Coyote will please readers of all tastes with its compelling storytelling, fascinating and often funny hero, and beautiful prose.” (Michael Koryta)
About the Author
John Dufresne is the author of six novels, including No Regrets, Coyote. Among other honors, he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a professor in the MFA program at Florida International University. He lives in Dania Beach, Florida.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
"I tell you I'm going to lie to you and then I lie to you and you believe it. Because you want to believe."
By Luan Gaines
Dufresne concocts a spicy stew of mayhem, murder and family attachments as therapist and forensic consultant, Wylie "Coyote" Melville, accompanies his friend, Detective Sergeant Carlos O'Brien of the Eden Police Department, to a Christmas Eve crime scene, the murder of an entire family, a typed suicide note nearby. Observant by nature and profession, Wylie mentally catalogs the images of the slaughtered Halliday family, later to ponder the significance of any anomalies between the scene and the resolution of the case. Dufresne writes in the stream of life, his protagonist immersed not only in the murders, but his own problems, personal and professional, ruminating on the crime scene and passing his observations onto O'Brien, including the actions of a detective on the scene who was acting suspiciously. Though official determination of the Halliday case is murder-suicide, Melville decides to do a little investigating of his own.
Much of the color and over-the-top interactions of this novel are supplied by its eccentric cast of characters: Wylie's friend, pro poker player and sleight of hand artist, Bay Lettique; Red Soileau, a homeless man squatting in Melville's yard; his emotionally extravagant sister and her husband; and Wylie's father, who is suffering from Alzheimer's. While his father and family members provide diversion on the home front, Wylie's patients tax his tolerance, Red, the squatter, reports on activities around Wylie's house and Bay uses his considerable underworld contacts to develop more background on the significant players in the murder investigation. There's no shortage of violence or menace, Wylie the target of a dirty cop with revenge on his mind and possibly the Russian mob, events escalating out of control the more Melville delves into the connections between certain parties. And in the same way that LA (Hollywood) generates images and behaviors specific to its demographic, so does Florida, with a surplus of idiosyncratic characters, kinky, quirky and sometimes deadly.
In a blend of violence, humor and serendipity, Dufresne captures the absurdity of human nature, packaged in a protagonist beset with difficult patients, his father's frustrating relationship with reality and the need to depend on Detective Sergeant Carlos O'Brien to protect him from the malicious actions of a renegade cop, though often Bay Lettique is his only ace in the hole. Florida's abundant flora and fauna is the lush background for a wild assortment of inhabitants, from lonelyhearts in search of a mate to squabbling husbands and wives, from cops and politicians to dedicated gamblers, crooks and Russian mobsters, Dufresne dissecting the mechanics of murder in the midst of paradise. Luan Gaines/2013.
22 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
Excessive character vignettes, uneven plotting mar the suspense of this crime novel
By J. Luiz
I love it when literary fiction writers try other genres. Last year, one of my favorite novels was The Three-Day Affair, a great crime novel by Michael Kardos, whose previous book was a collection of literary short stories. I knew John Dufresne's reputation, but hadn't gotten around to reading any of his literary novels before I read this novel. When I previewed the first chapter online, I thought his foray into the crime/suspense genre would be an entertaining read. The first chapter certainly grabs you by the lapels and makes you feel like you're in for a suspenseful ride as Wylie "Coyote" Melville visits a crime scene in which a restaurateur, Chafin Halliday murdered his wife and young children and then killed himself. Wylie is a therapist but he's called in to investigate the scene because the local police rely on his exceptional powers of observation. Wylie immediately suspects all is not as it seems, and the details of the crime scene do not indicate the husband was a man planning to end his life on this Christmas eve. I immediately liked the idea of the sleuth with the non-conventional occupation, which I know has become a fairly common practice now in detective novels. After that razzle dazzle opening, you expect Wylie to slowly start to unravel the mystery. But over the next two thirds of the novel, we get very little detail about the Halliday murder. Instead, the characters in Wylie's world keep getting introduced to us in what starts to feel like an onslaught. From the outset we know his two best friends are a police detective and a professional poker player and magician with intimate knowledge of the Florida underworld. But then we also meet Wylie's family - his high-strung overweight sister, her slim brilliant, but unambitious husband and his Alzheimer's-stricken father. It's nice to round out the "detective's" personal life so that we get to know him about him as a person. But the parade of characters in Wylie's life won't stop coming. We are introduced to several of his patients, a homeless man who starts camping out in his backyard, his ex-wife, his ex-girlfriend whom he still loves but who has since remarried even though she and Wylie remain close friends. Maybe even all that is fine, as one of those characters ends up playing a key role in the ultimate unraveling of the story. But then we also have to learn about everyone else who crosses Wylie's path. Wylie and his best pals Carlos and Bay spend a lot of time in bars and coffees shops, and I practically groaned every time they were in one because we had to get a capsulized personal history of the bartender, the waitress, and every regular patron Wylie knew. You really do need a scorecard to keep track of the characters and I actually started keeping notes in the end pages, just to try to remembers all these different characters - and Dufresne makes it even more difficult by giving some similar names - his sister is Venise and one of his patients is Cerise. I got so bored with these endless character sketches that many times I was tempted to give up on the novel because it didn't seem like any more details on the central mystery would be forthcoming. While he's a good enough writer to make these mini-biographies of characters interesting, they incredibly bogged down the pacing and plotting of the story. It isn't until about two thirds of the way in - around page 220 of a 325 page novel - that things turns full-scale back to the original mystery - and then things do get intriguing. Still I was a bit shocked, because while the opening scene was brutal with young children having been shot execution-style, the violence in the last section of the novel has an over-the-top Brian DePalma-esque goriness. Also, in the final sections and particularly in the final 50 pages or so, so much happens all at once, it feels like the novel is trying to sprint its way to the finish line to make up ground for how slow and deliberate it was over the first two thirds. In the end, I was glad I finished it, but boy in those early sections it was a chore to keep coming back to.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Terrific!
By Louis K. Lowy
In John Dufresne's terrific new novel, No Regrets, Coyote, sunshine state therapist Wylie `Coyote' Melville has been called in by a detective of the Eden Police Department to give his opinion on the murder/suicide of a family of four. What Wylie discovers leads to a chain of unexpected and contorted links.
Dufresne takes the noir genre and turns it on its cranium. His is a quirky and sometimes violent world. It's a place where former Monkees walk into diners, professional gamblers perform smart phone magic tricks, homeless men set up camp in neighbor's yards and where good is anything but.
Because Dufresne writes with a depth not usually found in this type of novel his protagonist and those who surround him remain with you long after the final pages have been turned. As a reader No Regrets, Coyote left me with only one regret--having to wait for the next Coyote book.
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