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Overview: John Francis Cuddy is the lead character of the John Francis Cuddy series of detective/crime mystery novels by American author Jeremiah Healey. John Cuddy the protagonist in the series is a man who takes up the cases that fall through the cracks in the judicial system. As a private investigator based in Boston, he can be violent when required to be, honest, and moral. Before he decided to set up as a private investigator, he had served in the military as an MP. The debut novel in the series was the 1984 published “Blunt Darts” that became very successful within a few weeks of publication. Since the first novel was such a success, Healey would turn prolific publishing a title a year between 1984 and 1999 when he published thirteen novels culminating in “Spiral” in 1999. In addition to the 13 novels of the series, he also wrote two short story collections all of which made the finals for a Shamus Award. His second novel “The Staked Goat” was a winner of the Shamus Award in 1986. Given his legal background, the author had the advantage of having a very good understanding of cases that did not make it into the legal system and how they were later resolved. Using this knowledge, he wrote the debut about the search for the child of a judge that was seemingly reluctant to have him found. He also wrote about the right to assisted suicide in the 1991 published “Right to Die” and the competency of a hypnotized person as a courtroom witness in the 1987 published title “So Like Sleep”.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
“Blunt Darts” the first novel in the series is an explosive introduction to John Francis Cuddy the lead character of the John Francis Cuddy series of novels. Cuddy is a recently widowed Vietnam veteran who has just lost his job at the insurance company. He has set up on his own and opened his own private investigations firm, though he drinks too much for a man in his mid-thirties. Lately he has been getting his act together and has even got himself hired to find the missing fourteen-year-old grandson of a wealthy woman in the town. Initial investigations indicate that the boy may have run away rather than been kidnapped, given his experience in the woods and his reputation as a very smart boy. The young man has endured much trauma having lost his mother and uncle before spending some time in a mental health facility. Oddly, it seems no one care about the boys welfare with his father, a leading judge in the city more concerned with protecting his name rather than getting his son back safe. The judge is frustrating the case and has employed a fixer/bodyguard to ensure people like Cuddy do not make any headway.
“The Staked Goat” is an excellent novel that takes John Francis back to his days of serving as MP in Vietnam. During the war, he had been great friends with Al Sachs with whom he has patrolled the dangerous streets of Saigon. More than ten years later, he is a PI toughing it out on the mean back streets of Boston. He is rudely interrupted from a deep sleep when the phone starts ringing at 7 am. His old friend Sachs is on the other end of the line asking that they meet and catch up later in the evening. He accepts to go to the meet but Sachs never shows up. The next morning Cuddy gets Sachs’s address and arrives at his place to find it crawling with police officers and paramedics. His friend’s body had been found mangled and naked with the pinkie finger broken. Just then, he remembers that while in Saigon, Sachs used to say jokingly that he would crush his pinkie finger if he was ever captured by enemy agents, to let him know that his death was not accidental. He now needs to travel back to Vietnam and unearth a dark military conspiracy in a war that he thought was all but finished.
1 Blunt Darts (1984)
2 The Staked Goat (1986) aka The Tethered Goat
3 So Like Sleep (1987)
4 Swan Dive (1988)
5 Yesterday’s News (1989)
6 Right To Die (1991)
7 Shallow Graves (1992)
8 Foursome (1993)
9 Act Of God (1994)
10 Rescue (1995)
11 Invasion Of Privacy (1996)
12 The Only Good Lawyer (1998)
13 Spiral (1999)
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