We're all lucky Open Road is now offering the John Cuddy series in ebook format so we can all enjoy this high-quality series again.
In this one John is hired to play bodyguard for a woman who wants to divorce her cruel husband. When the husband is found dead along with a hooker Cuddy is suspected of these killings. The PI is forced to investigate these deaths to prove his innocence.
Jeremiah Healy shows us how great the nineties PI's were with a great, intelligent plot, some non-gratuitous violence and great characters. What makes this one especially interesting in the way Cuddy decides to make some decisions that are quite morally ambiguous, showing us all a good PI should be interested in justice more than the law.
An example for everyone trying to write a good PI novel...
2 comments:
I LOVE the Cuddy books. So glad they're going to be available again. And the books of Jonathan Valin, too. Are they likely to be reprinted do you think?
I figure they will HAVE to be reprinted, Keith. They keep popping up when people talk about favorite PI novels of the past. I never read one but hope they will be reprinted soon so I will get a chance...
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