โ Scribed by Jeremiah Healy
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Boston private detective John Francis Cuddy, first encountered in So Like Sleep , returns in Healy's sizzling new mystery. A man so debased that he mutilates his small daughter's kitten, Roy Marsh won't agree to a fair financial settlement with his wife Hanna, who is divorcing him. Cuddy has a way of making Roy pay for his cruelty and is therefore a suspect when somebody kills the sadist and a young prostitute in her apartment. In trouble with the police and, the detective quickly learns, with criminals bent on finding drugs missing from the dead man's luxurious house, Cuddy narrowly survives body blows, time after time. In hopes of solving the case, he keeps investigating the people in Roy's background, particularly sexy lawyer Felicia Arnold, still another woman in Roy's life, who was abetting the husband in his scheme to cheat Hanna. The story drives to a knockout finish with implications for the engaging detective's happy future. Visiting his wife's grave, Cuddy feels sure she approves of his new life with Nancy Arnold, who doubtlessly will co-star again in additions to the series. A beguiling sense of humor, ingenious plotting and avoidance of shallow sentimentality are traits that take Healy's novels to the top.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
A teenage refugee adapts to a new country, a new language, new school and even finds a wonderful best friend, until the pressures of past and present collide and lead to a lie that changes everything.
A stint as a bodyguard sucks Cuddy into a vicious divorce caseDivorce will not be easy for Hanna Marsh. Her drug-dealing husband, Roy, is a cruel man, whose greed makes him unwilling to part with anything he owns--including his money, wife, and daughter. Hanna's lawyer is terrified of Roy, but has t
A teenage refugee adapts to a new country, a new language, new school and even finds a wonderful best friend, until the pressures of past and present collide and lead to a lie that changes everything.
After the devastating events recounted in THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN, Dave Robicheaux and his ex-partner in Homicide, Clete Purcel, head for the mountains and trout streams of Montana for some much-needed healing. However, while Montana might seem an unspoilt paradise peopled by men and women from an ear
James and Mary Swan picked bluebells for their mother on their way home from school. They were expecting freshly baked cakes, but there was to be no teatime treat on that fateful day. What they found instead would change their lives forever.Seven years on, together with their older brother, Noah; an