J. F. Healy

In a divorce case in Boston, a husband is arrested for killing the lawyer who represented his wife. PI John Cuddy, however, is convinced the husband is innocent and seeks to find the real killer. Suspects range from a mistress to a brother, beneficiary of the lawyer's insurance policy.

In Boston, banker Olga Evorova hires PI Cuddy to do a background check on Andrew Dees, a man she loves, but who is tight-lipped about his past. Cuddy discovers the real Dees is dead and the impostor is in the federal witness protection program. No sooner done, than Olga and Dees disappear and Cuddy receives a visit from the Mafia. The Mafia wants Cuddy's services in finding the pair.

John Francis Cuddy returns as a hired bodyguard protecting a mother and child in a nasty divorce case that involves him with a cocaine distribution ring and a double murder.

Bocy found on Beacon Hill, victim unknown. The police closed the case-but for private detective John Cuddy, it was the beginning of a trip into hell. The victim was his best buddy from Vietnam. One look at the mutilated body with its telltale broken finger, and he got a last, inexorable message...