Right to Die [Hardcover]

Jeremiah Healy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1991

P.I. John Cuddy is asked to become a watchdog for individual rights crusader Maisy Andrus--a woman who's made more than her share of enemies. As Cuddy enters Maisy's world of righteousness and outrage, he finds some likely suspects--but little realizes how treacherous the truth really is.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

When euthanasia advocate and professor Maisy Andrus receives anonymous death threats, Boston private investigator John Cuddy (last seen in the taut Yesterday's News ) is hired to keep her alive. As this smooth mystery progresses, Cuddy's list of potential assassins grows to include everyone from hysterical fundamentalists to rabid neo-Nazis. However, the PI discovers that her most dangerous enemies may be closer to home: Andrus's stepson knows that she gave a lethal injection to his dying father and was never charged with murder, while Andrus's current husband would inherit a fortune upon her death. Later, the would-be killer plays at target practice with Andrus and Cuddy, and Cuddy fears that he is a pawn in a contest where the same fate may await winner and loser--death. Healy uses finesse to make an appeal for understanding an emotion-charged issue.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Across the country, Boston private eye John Cuddy intends to find out who has threatened right-to-die advocate Professor Maisy Andrews via her private mail. Looking past the rather motley crew around the wealthy professor--a deaf mute bodyguard, a diabetic gay activist, a Cuban refugee, and a younger tennis pro husband--Cuddy checks college antagonists and hate-mail writers. Healy fills the spaces around this negligible plot with Cuddy's preparations for running his first Boston marathon. Not much action or suspense, but series followers ( Swan Dive , HarperCollins, 1988; So Like Sleep , LJ 4/1/87; etc.) may continue to appreciate the Boston surrounds.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 243 pages
• Publisher: Pocket Books; First Edition edition (July 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671708090
• ISBN-13: 978-0671708092
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,736,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jeremiah Healy, a former Sheriff's Officer and Military Police Lieutenant, is a graduate of Rutgers College and the Harvard Law School. Healy is also 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. Healy has written eighteen novels and over sixty short stories, sixteen of which works have won or been nominated for the Shamus Award. He served as the President of the International Association of Crime Writers ("IACW") from 2000-2004, and he was the International Guest of Honour at the 34th World Mystery Convention in Toronto during October, 2004. Three years ago, Healy concluded his term as a member of the Mystery Writers of America's National Board of Directors.