Coyle's Folly

“John Grisham, slide over and make room at the table. Ben Kelley proves himself a master of the legal thriller.”
- Nicolas Gilmartin Teranzi, Online Critics Corner

Timothy Coyle is an attorney, not afraid to take on automotive companies, judges, even deranged killers. Moira Coyle is not only his paralegal, she’s his wife -- and equally determined to win outside the courtroom as well as inside. But the Surfer 4 injury case -- Aliso v. Columbia Motors -- proves to be more than a David meets Goliath contest. An SUV rolled over, injuring twin girls. But the key document showing the car company’s test track results seems to have disappeared. Without proper evidence, can Tim and Moira win this one?

Ben Kelley comes from a family of journalists and writers. After a stint in Japan in U.S. Army intelligence, he remained in Tokyo as a newspaper editor for three years. He returned to the U.S. to work as a news reporter in Washington, D.C., then went into government as a policy wonk and communications manager. From there he moved into auto safety research and consumer advocacy. He’s made award-winning documentary films, written extensively on auto defect and other public health issues, and testified frequently before Congress and the courts. Ben’s home is in Pebble Beach, California, where he and two senior cats live a stone’s throw from the ocean and just across the street from a patch of the ancient Del Monte Forest.