John Francis Cuddy 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.

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.

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.