Jeremiah Healy
Photo Jim Norman

Ed Gorman and Bill Crider are reporting that Jeremiah Healy has died. Healy suffered from severe chronic depression, and this (exacerbated by alcohol) led him to take his own life.

Healy was the award winning author of the John Francis Cuddy series of private investigator novels and stories.  He also wrote legal thrillers under the name Terry Devane.  The Cuddy stories are among the best private investigator stories I’ve ever read. If you haven’t read his work, you should.

I never had the privilege of meeting him.  By all accounts he was well loved by all who knew him.  I respectfully offer my condolences to his friends and family.  My deepest sympathies, as well as my thoughts and prayers, are with his wife Sandy Balzo.