Hired by Olga Evorova to perform a discreet background check on the man she wants to marry, Cuddy believes it will be a simple assignment, until everyone he questions lies to him and a pair of thugs warn him to back off
Jeremiah Healy was the creator of the John Francis Cuddy private-investigator series and the author of several legal thrillers. A former sheriff's officer and military police captain, Healy was also a graduate of Rutgers College and the Harvard Law School. He practiced law in Boston before teaching for eighteen years at the New England School of Law. His first novel, BLUNT DARTS, was published in 1984 and introduced Cuddy, the Boston-based private eye who has become Healy¹s best-known character. Moral, honest--and violent, when need-be--Cuddy makes his living solving cases that have fallen through the cracks of the formal judicial system.
Of his thirteen Cuddy novels and two collections of short stories, fifteen have either won or been nominated for the Shamus Award. www.JeremiahHealy.com
Nice detective tale. Kept me interested and had some interesting characters. Nice pacing and ending worth waiting for. Turns out this writer has won awards for this private detective series of which this is book #11.
Healy writes a good, solid mystery. The plot clicks along, Cuddy as PI is believable and fully dimensional, the New England atmosphere is vividly painted. Ditto with other characters. And he is quite good at coming up with an unexpected plot twist.
Only one thing bothers me. As part of his back story, Cuddy's wife Beth died of cancer. As the series progressed, his visits to her grave evolved into a two-way conversation, which I find ridiculous. Healy once described seeing a man talking to a headstone, which inspired the element. So I get the idea, just not the execution.
INVASION OF PRIVACY - Ex Healy, Jeremiah - 11th in John Francis Cuddy series
Hired by Olga Evorova to perform a discreet background check on the man she wants to marry, Cuddy believes it will be a simple assignment, until everyone he questions lies to him and a pair of thugs warn him to back off.
He may not be Robert Parker, but he's darned book. This series keeps getting better with each book.