Cuddy Plus One

John Francis Cuddy

by Jeremiah Healy

"Miracles of resourcefulness, economy, and compassion." So wrote Kirkus Reviews about The Concise Cuddy, Jeremiah Healy's earlier short-story collection about private detective John Francis Cuddy. This second collection includes more short tales by the author whom Kirkus described as "the most consistently successful writer of private-eye stories since Ross Macdonald ." Cuddy is not only a skillful P.I., but a concerned human being who has experienced loss in his own life. He still communes with his dead wife Beth at a Boston graveyard, and though he lives in a world that can turn violent, he is not a violent man.
Cuddy Plus One puts in book form thirteen previously uncollected cases about Cuddy including four nominees for the Shamus Award for Best Private-Eye Short story, and two stories that appeared in the annual Best American Mystery Stories.

441 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 2003

About the author

aka Terry Devane

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

Series:
* John Francis Cuddy

Reviews

[L B]

Good stories. I was surprised how dated they seem now.

[Allen E. Humphries]

Superb!

As I know the areas in which these stories were placed - I feel almost like I could watch while the various events took place.

[Jeff J.]

The second collection of Jeremiah Hesly’s dhort stories about P.I. Cuddy.