From Publishers Weekly
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.
From Library Journal
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.
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