Jeremiah Healy

Jeremiah Healy, a former sheriff’s officer and military police lieutenant, is a graduate of Rutgers College and the Harvard Law School. Healy is the creator of the John Francis Cuddy private-investigator series and (under the pseudonym “Terry Devane”) the Mairead O’Clare legal-thriller series, both set primarily in Boston. Healy has written eighteen novels and over sixty short stories, sixteen of which works have won or been nominated for the Shamus Award.

Books of his have been translated into Japanese, Italian, German, Spanish and Turkish, and he has done presentations on crime-writing for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, the Sorbonne in Paris, and various conferences in Canada, Austria, England, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Iceland.

Healy served as the President of the International Association of Crime Writers (“IACW”) from 2000-2004, and he was the International Guest of Honour at the 34th World Mystery Convention in Toronto during October, 2004. He also was a member of the Mystery Writers of America’s National Board of Directors.

Healy is survived by his fiancée, Sandra Balzo, and a plethora of good friends all over the world.

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Serenity Funeral Home and Cremation has been entrusted with the funeral arrangements.