โ Scribed by Jeremiah Healy
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
When euthanasia advocate and professor Maisy Andrus receives anonymous death threats, Boston private investigator John Cuddy (last seen in the taut Yesterday's News ) is hired to keep her alive. As this smooth mystery progresses, Cuddy's list of potential assassins grows to include everyone from hysterical fundamentalists to rabid neo-Nazis. However, the PI discovers that her most dangerous enemies may be closer to home: Andrus's stepson knows that she gave a lethal injection to his dying father and was never charged with murder, while Andrus's current husband would inherit a fortune upon her death. Later, the would-be killer plays at target practice with Andrus and Cuddy, and Cuddy fears that he is a pawn in a contest where the same fate may await winner and loser--death. Healy uses finesse to make an appeal for understanding an emotion-charged issue.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Across the country, Boston private eye John Cuddy intends to find out who has threatened right-to-die advocate Professor Maisy Andrews via her private mail. Looking past the rather motley crew around the wealthy professor--a deaf mute bodyguard, a diabetic gay activist, a Cuban refugee, and a younger tennis pro husband--Cuddy checks college antagonists and hate-mail writers. Healy fills the spaces around this negligible plot with Cuddy's preparations for running his first Boston marathon. Not much action or suspense, but series followers ( Swan Dive , HarperCollins, 1988; So Like Sleep , LJ 4/1/87; etc.) may continue to appreciate the Boston surrounds.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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ISBN : 9780671708108
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