Authors: Jeremiah Healy
Spiral (36 page)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jeremiah Healy,
a graduate of Rutgers College and Harvard Law School, was a professor at the New England School of Law for eighteen years. He is the creator of John Francis Cuddy, a Boston-based private investigator.
Healy’s first novel,
Blunt Darts,
was selected by
The New York Times
as one of the seven best mysteries of 1984. His second work,
The Staked Goat,
received the Shamus award for the Best Private Eye Novel of 1986. Healy has been nominated for a Shamus a total of twelve times (six for books, six for short stories). Healy’s later novels include So
Like Sleep, Swan Dive, Yesterday’s News, Right to Die, Shallow Graves, Foursome
,
Act of God, Rescue, Invasion of Privacy,
and
The Only Good Lawyer.
The last two were Shamus nominees for best novel as well.
Healy has served as a judge for both the Shamus and Edgar awards. His books have been translated into French, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, and German. Currently the North American vice president of the International Association of Crime Writers, he was president of the Private Eye Writers of America for two years. Healy has written and spoken about mystery writing extensively, including the Smithsonian Institution’s Literature Series, the Sorbonne in Paris, and international conferences of crime writers in New York, England, Spain, and Austria. A member or chair of panels at twelve World Mystery Conventions (”BoucherCons”), Healy also served as the banquet toastmaster for the 1996 BoucherCon and as Guest of Honor at the 1997 Dallas mystery convention. In October 1998 he hosted the International Association of Crime Writers as part of the World Mystery Convention in Philadelphia.
JEREMIAH HEALY
is a graduate of Harvard Law School.
He won the Shamus Award for The Staked Goat, and has been nominated five additional times for Best Novel and five times for Best Short Story. SPIRAL is the thirteenth book in his acclaimed series featuring John Francis Cuddy.