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Jeremiah Healy

(1948 - 2014)

aka Terry Devane

Jeremiah Healy, a graduate of Rutgers College and Harvard Law School, was a professor at the New England School of Law for eighteen years. He is the creator of the John Francis Cuddy private-investigator series and (under the pseudonym "Terry Devane") the Mairead O'Clare legal-thriller series, both set primarily in Boston.

Awards: Shamus (1987) see all

Genres: Mystery

Series

John Francis Cuddy
   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)
   The Concise Cuddy (1998)
   13. Spiral (1999)
   Cuddy Plus One (2003)

Novels

The Stalking Of Sheilah Quinn (1998)
Turnabout (2001)

Collections

Off-Season (2003)

Books containing stories by Jeremiah Healy

On Dangerous Ground (2011)
Stories of Western Noir
edited by
Ed Gorman, Martin H Greenberg and Dave Zeltserman

Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe (2011)
edited by
Byron Preiss

Christmas at The Mysterious Bookshop (2010)
edited by
Otto Penzler

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Awards

1987 Shamus Award for Best PI Novel : The Staked Goat

Award nominations

	2006 Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story (nominee) : Two Birds with One Stone
	2003 Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story (nominee) : Aftermath
	2001 Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story (nominee) : What's In A Name?
	2000 Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story (nominee) : Hodegetria
	1999 Shamus Award for Best PI Novel (nominee) : The Only Good Lawyer
	1997 Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story (nominee) : Turning The Witness
	1997 Shamus Award for Best PI Novel (nominee) : Invasion Of Privacy
	1994 Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story (nominee) : The Bagged Man
	1994 Shamus Award for Best PI Novel (nominee) : Foursome
	1993 Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story (nominee) : Rest Stop
	1993 Shamus Award for Best PI Novel (nominee) : Shallow Graves
	1991 Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story (nominee) : Battered Spouse
	1990 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Short Story (nominee) : One Eye Open
	1989 Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story (nominee) : In the Line of Duty
	1989 Shamus Award for Best PI Novel (nominee) : Swan Dive
	1985 Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel (nominee) : Blunt Darts

Jeremiah Healy recommends

The Last Witness (2003)
(Lou Mason, book 2)
Joel Goldman
"One of the premier crime novels of the year."

An Eye for Murder (2002)
(Ellie Foreman Mysteries, book 1)
Libby Fischer Hellmann
"A beautifully wrought novel."

Dark of the Moon (1999)
(Louis Kincaid, book 1)
P J Parrish
"Louis Kincaid is both perfect and poignant...the scenes of confrontation, from the subtle to the startling, are maginifcantly rendered. This novel is sure to be a contender for all the major mystery awards."

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