Jeremiah Healy Books in Order

Newly widowed Boston private investigator John Francis Cuddy is hired to find a missing judge's teenage son. What starts as a search for one troubled boy opens into family damage, privilege, and people with a lot to hide.

When an old Vietnam friend calls out of the blue and is found murdered the next day, Cuddy knows it was no accident. His search carries him from Boston into a violent conspiracy rooted in the war.

William Daniels, a gifted young man from a rough Boston background, seems to have confessed to murder under hypnosis. Cuddy does not buy the story and digs into a case shaped by memory, pressure, and manipulation.

Cuddy takes a bodyguard job that should be simple, but the people around his client are anything but calm. What follows is a tense Boston case of protection, betrayal, and violence, with personal stakes that cut closer than he expects.

Reporter Jane Rust senses a conspiracy in the town of Nasharbor and turns to Cuddy for help. When she is killed, he follows her unfinished story into a nest of small-town fear, corruption, and people desperate to keep the past buried.

Cuddy is hired to protect Maisy Andrus, a public advocate for euthanasia rights who has drawn plenty of enemies. Guard duty turns into investigation as he sorts through zealotry, fear, and the possibility of murder.

Cuddy is asked to find who killed young model Mau Tim Dani, whose death touches both a modeling agency and a Boston mob family. The case pulls him into a slick, ugly world of ambition, secrets, and organized crime.

Three members of two wealthy couples are found murdered by a quiet Maine lake, and Cuddy is hired to untangle what happened. His search moves between the North Woods and Boston, where money, sex, and old resentments collide.

Pearl Rivkind hires Cuddy to solve her husband's brutal murder, and the case quickly grows larger than a single killing. Following two lines of inquiry across Boston, he runs into betrayal, buried motives, and dangerous half-truths.

After promising to look out for ten-year-old Eddie Haldon, Cuddy watches the boy vanish less than a day later. The search leads him through grief, greed, and a frighteningly manipulative religious world that will not let Eddie go easily.

What looks like a routine background check turns strange when Olga Evorova asks Cuddy to investigate the man she plans to marry. The deeper he digs, the more lies he finds, along with mob pressure and real danger.

This anthology gathers original crime and courtroom stories from a roster of writers, edited by Scott Turow. Each tale offers a different angle on the American justice system, from police and prosecutors to defendants, jurors, and people caught in between.

This collection gathers seventeen John Francis Cuddy stories, from murders and scams to smaller, stranger cases. The settings range from Boston streets to rural Maine, showing Cuddy at his sharpest in shorter form.

Cuddy investigates the case of Alan Spaeth, a hateful man accused of murdering divorce lawyer Woodrow Wilson Gant. Convinced Spaeth may still be innocent, he digs into a killing tangled with racism, sex, and hidden grudges.

Criminal defense attorney Sheilah Quinn becomes the target of a wealthy client accused of killing his girlfriend. To stay alive, she has to outthink not only a dangerous man, but everyone who stands to gain from her fall.

Still shattered by the death of the woman he loves, John Francis Cuddy is pulled into a Florida case by old Vietnam connections. What starts as a plea for help becomes a knot of family secrets, money, and buried loyalties.

This entry brings John Francis Cuddy into a shorter private-eye puzzle built around identity, motive, and a carefully drawn trail of clues. It works as a compact taste of Healy's Boston detective world.

Private investigator Matthew Langway is summoned to a fortified Massachusetts estate when a wealthy family's child heir is kidnapped. As ransom plans wobble and relatives turn on one another, he learns the real threat may already be inside the compound.

Burned out on corporate law, Mairead O'Clare joins Boston defense lawyer Sheldon Gold and is thrown straight into a murder case. Her client is Alpha, a homeless man accused of killing another homeless man by the Charles River.

After Mairead O'Clare and Sheldon Gold win an acquittal for gangster Big Ben Friedman, the verdict is shadowed by suspicions of jury tampering. Then Juror Number Eleven reaches out to Mairead for help and turns up dead.

When Judge Barbara Pitt's young law clerk disappears during a nationally watched clergy abuse trial, Sheldon Gold and Mairead O'Clare are pulled into a case layered with scandal and private shame. The search turns the courthouse into a maze of secrets.

Thirteen previously uncollected John Francis Cuddy stories fill this volume, giving readers a broad look at his cases and voice. The plus one is a bonus Mairead O'Clare story, linking Healy's two best-known series.

This collection rounds up Jeremiah Healy's shorter crime fiction, including stories featuring John Francis Cuddy and other troubled investigators. The pieces are lean, varied, and rooted in the same moral pressure as the novels.

In 1950s Los Angeles, private investigator Eddie Church takes a simple job collecting overdue alimony from Korean War veteran Frank Barris. When the check bounces and others start hunting Barris, Eddie finds himself caught in a dangerous tangle of debts, lies, and postwar secrets.