Jeremiah Healy
"Having been a trial attorney
was a tremendous help in conceptualizing how to tell a story. When I would
go into a court room, I'd have to be able to tell a story to the audience,
a jury, when that jury has never heard anything about the case ahead of
time. What a mystery writer has to do, is very much the same thing. He or
she has to tell a story to the audience using different techniques of story
telling, drama, pacing."
from the Mysterious Pen interview
Jeremiah Healy is the creator of John Francis Cuddy, a
Boston Private Investigator. Over twelve books, Healy has examined issues
from the right-to- die to privacy to reporters and their sources though
the eyes of Vietnam veteran Cuddy. A mixture of hard boiled action and insightful
debate, Healy's series is both thoughtful and entertaining.
"If we think of the fictional
cowboy as the one who brings law to a lawless land, then we can think of
the fictional Private Investigator, as the one who brings justice to a law-bound
society. A society in which the law sometimes gets so complicated that the
system itself cannot achieve justice for the individual participants in
a given dispute."
from the Mysterious Pen interview
In "Jeremiah Healy: The Mysterious Pen"
interview, Healy discusses his career as a lawyer and law professor, how
he became a writer, his influences and what he is trying to accomplish with
his novels.
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