The only good Lawyer

Praise for Jeremiah Healy and
    THE ONLY GOOD LAWYER

    “Moves at a fast clip, punctuated with surprises that continually keep the reader off balance.... Healy does not scrimp on the quality readers have come to expect from this award-winning series.”
    — Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

    “Healy has quietly labored for the better part of two decades to make the John Francis Cuddy novels among the best in the hard-boiled subgenre. This, the twelfth in the series, is one of the best.”
    —The Pilot (Southern Pines, NC)

    “Healy puts a rapid pace on the story.... The writing is strong and clear and the characters are believable.”
    —San Antonio Express-News

    “There are vicious gang members, sleazy attorneys, easy women, and hidden truths galore.... Another brilliant effort by a superb crime-writing craftsman.”
    —State Journal ( Lansing , MI )

    “This is a whodunit worth your time.”
    — Abilene Reporter-News

    “Noteworthy for its byzantine plot as well as the usual Cuddy strengths: characterization, dialogue, and explosive action.”
    —Booklist

    INVASION OF PRIVACY

    “The plot evoked vintage Ross Macdonald: the detective’s search reveals old secrets that spawn new horrors years later. Cuddy is always good gritty company.”
    —Publishers Weekly

    “As always, Cuddy is a good man on Boston ’s mean streets. The dialogue crackles, the plot is complex and clever; and Cuddy’s relationship with his longtime lover faces a crisis in which machismo won’t help.... An excellent series.”
    —Booklist

    “A solid private-eye procedural enriched by believable affection between characters.... While this P.I. packs a pistol and a punch when necessary, Cuddy’s real courage comes in how he handles relationships.... The portrayal of Cuddy’s unlikely friendship with Mafioso honcho Primo Zuppone is worth the price of the book.”
    — Boston Herald

    “This may be Jeremiah Healy’s best Cuddy adventure yet.... Fascinating.”
    — St. Petersburg Times (FL)

    “Cuddy’s sleuthing techniques are exciting and unusual.”
    — New York magazine

    “Healy remains one of the most consistently entertaining writers in the genre.”
    — Chicago Tribune

    RESCUE

    “Rescue is Healy at his best—a richly textured, superbly unfolded tale.... Cuddy is a beautifully rounded character: tough, resourceful, witty, and not afraid of deep feelings.... In Rescue... he’s called upon to exercise every one of his formidable skills.”
    — Houston Chronicle

    “Brilliant.... I’ve always wished Jerry Healy well, but not this well.”
    —Robert B. Parker

    “A doozy.... The story unfolds beautifully, and tensely, from its seductive opening.... The tension is palpable, the writing elegant yet clipped, the action, when it comes, [is] violent, vicious, and explicit. The ending, with its muted victories, is very moving.... This is exciting, thoughtful, wily fiction.”
    —The Washington Post

    “Healy’s prose is some of the crispest around.... He has what it takes.”
    — Boston Magazine

    “Healy sustains the private-eye tradition very nicely indeed.”
    —The Los Angeles Times

Other John Cuddy novels by Jeremiah Healy

    Blunt Darts
    The Staked Goat
    So Like Sleep
    Swan Dive
    Yesterday’s News
    Right to Die
    Shallow Graves
    Foursome
    Act of God
    Rescue
    Invasion of Privacy

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