Everybody,
First, thanks
to all who answered in this string before I was able to
return to Boston from Bouchercon, which went off well,
especially considering the proximity of the Pentagon
geographically and September 11th chronologically. As to the
Cuddy books and Boston:
1) BLUNT
DARTS, a Shamus nominee for Best First, is the debut book in
the series, set in Metro-West Boston and the downtown area,
but with some chapters in the Berkshires. Cuddy searches for
the missing son of a judge when the father doesn't seem to
want his own child returned to him.
2) THE STAKED
GOAT won the Shamus Award for Best Novel. It is set in
Boston, Pittsburgh, and Washington, DC. Cuddy searches for
the killer of a friend of his from the Military Police in
Saigon.
3) SO LIKE
SLEEP is set in Metro-West Boston and deals with Cuddy trying
to help a black college student accused of killing his white
girlfriend in the context of group therapy and
hypnosis.
4) SWAN DIVE,
a Shamus nominee, is set in Boston and the North Shore. Cuddy
serves as the informal bodyguard for a woman being abused by
her husband during divorce proceedings.
5)
YESTERDAY'S NEWS is set on Massachusetts' southern shore near
New Bedford and Fall River. Cuddy tries to find the killer of
a reporter's confidential source.
6) RIGHT TO
DIE is set in Boston. A law professor crusades for the right
to assisted suicide a la Dr. Kevorkian. She receives death
threats, and Cuddy tries to figure out who's sending them and
why, with a sub-plot of him training for and running the
Boston Marathon.
7) SHALLOW
GRAVES, a Shamus nominee, is set in Boston. An Amer-Asian
model is killed, apparently as the result of a botched
burglary, but her mobster father dragoons Cuddy into finding
the killer so the family can take vengeance.
8) FOURSOME,
a Shamus nominee, is set in rural Maine. Cuddy is asked to
help a defendant accused of killing three people by cross-bow
at a wilderness lake, with a subplot of girl gangs in
Boston.
9) ACT OF GOD
is set in Boston. Cuddy looks into the murder of a Holocaust
survivor who was part owner of a furniture store and into the
disappearance of a secretary from the store a week
later.
10) RESCUE, a
Main Selection of the Mystery Guild, is set in Boston, New
Hampshire, and the Florida Keys. My own personal favorite in
which Cuddy tries to find a boy with a prominent facial
birthmark who appears to have been kidnapped.
11) INVASION
OF PRIVACY, a Shamus nominee, is set in Boston and the South
Shore. Cuddy is asked by a banker to look into the background
of her boyfriend without "invading his privacy."
12) THE ONLY
GOOD LAWYER, a Shamus nominee, is set in Boston. Cuddy tries
to determine if an African-American divorce attorney was
killed by an irate, bigoted husband from one of his
cases.
13) SPIRAL, a
Flamingo Award nominee, is set in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Cuddy tries to determine who killed a provocative,
13-year-old girl who her father was grooming as lead singer
to bring his faded, 70's rock band back to the top.
14) THE
CONCISE CUDDY is a collection by Crippen & Landru of
roughly the first half of the Cuddy short stories, including
three Shamus nominees.
Legal
thrillers:
1) THE
STALKING OF SHEILAH QUINN involves a female criminal defense
attorney stalked by the very murder defendant she gets out on
bail.
2) UNCOMMON
JUSTICE (under the pseudonym "Terry Devane") features a
young, Irish-American female attorney who, disallusioned by
large firm practice in Boston, decides to throw in with an
older, Jewish male attorney who does mostly criminal defense
work. Her first case with him: the defense of a self-anointed
Irish "hermit" who is accused of killing another homeless man
along the Charles River.
Upcoming:
1) Dec, 2001:
TURNABOUT, under my name and set on Boston's North Shore, is
a stand-alone private-eye thriller about a Vietnam vet asked
to undertake a sensitive case while his partner is dipping
into client funds.
2) July,
2001: JUROR NUMBER ELEVEN, under the Devane pseudonym and set
in Boston, deals with the defense of a Jewish mobster on the
charge that he killed a young Russian boy, bribed a juror,
and then killed her as well.
3) August,
2001: CUDDY PLUS ONE, the second collection of Cuddy stories,
including three additional Shamus nominees, from Crippen
& Landru.
Good reading and thanks for inviting me to participate,
Jerry
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