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