Shallow Graves - Hardcover

Healy, Jeremiah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671708112 ISBN 13: 9780671708115

Publisher: Atria, 1992

Synopsis

When nineteen-year-old Amerasian model Mau Tim is found dead after a bungled burglary, private eye John Cuddy investigates and discovers that Tim's agency had taken out a hefty insurance policy on the cover girl prior to her death.

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Boston PI John Cuddy doesn't know that he'll be working under the eagle eye of mob boss Tommy "the Temper" Danucci when he agrees to look into the death of fashion model Mau Tim Dani for his former employer, Empire Insurance. He learns soon enough that Mau Tim was Danucci's granddaughter and that the mob family remains as puzzled about her death as the police and the insurance company that carried a large policy on her life for the modeling agency. The young woman was strangled in her apartment, which was owned and run by the family; the only other tenant in the building was another model. With only Mau Tim's missing iolite necklace to work from, Cuddy methodically interviews each of her relatives, co-workers and lovers, gradually building a picture of the girl and ultimately determining who killed her. As in past books, Healy gives his readers an array of distinctive characters while engaging them in a deftly plotted and satisfying story.
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Boston's low-keyed, unflappable p.i. John Cuddy (Right to Die, 1991, etc.) is hired by his despised insurance-company ex-boss to investigate the murder of young model Mau Tim Dani, whose agency had insured her life for half a million. Soon after, a henchman escorts Cuddy to a meeting with notorious mobster Tommy the Temper Danucci, who, it turns out, was Mau Tim's grandfather--a fact known to her best friend Sinead Fagan, an ex-boyfriend; photographer Oscar Puriefoy, and a few others. The murder, in Mau Tim's apartment, appears to be robbery-connected, but as Cuddy rehashes at length details of times, exits, and entries, puzzling questions arise. The answers are shocking and not totally convincing. Cuddy's bloodless romance with assistant D.A. Nancy Meagher; her cat's medical problems; a parade of characters who'd be mute without their all-purpose four-letter words; and a tortoiselike pace--all add up to torpid, under-par fare from an old hand who usually satisfies. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Edition details

• Publisher: Atria
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671708112
• ISBN 13: 9780671708115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288