title: The Stalking of Sheilah Quinn
author:  Jeremiah  Healy 
description: Before he quit his job to become the author of the excellent John Cuddy private-eye series, Jeremiah Healy was a law professor in his native Boston. In his first excursion beyond the Cuddy canon, Healy uses that background to give perfect pitch to this story about a top defense attorney stalked by the same creepy client she got off on murder charges. Quinn herself is an interesting combination of strength and vulnerability, and the stalker--a wealthy psychotic named Arthur Ketterson IV--is one of the most frightening fictional heavies of recent memory. Most of the Cuddy books--<I><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671795597/${0}">Act of God</a></I>, <I><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671737422/${0}">Blunt Darts</a></I>, <I><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671795570/${0}">Foursome</a></I>, <I><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671898744/${0}">Invasion of Privacy</a></I>, <I><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671009532/${0}">The Only Good Lawyer</a></I>, <I><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671898752/${0}">Rescue</a></I>, <I><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671708104/${0}">Right to Die</a></I>, <I><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671708120/${0}">Shallow Graves</a></I>, <I><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671742841/${0}">The Staked Goat</a></I>, and <I><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671695843/${0}">Yesterday's News</a></I>--are available in paperback. <I>--Dick Adler</I>
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  Cast of Characters
  
  
  The Winston-Beauforts
  
  Brianna “Bree” Winston-Beaufort . . . appeals attorney for dead souls
  
  Antonia Winston-Beaufort . . . Bree’s sister, an aspiring actress
  
  Royal Winston-Beaufort . . . Bree’s adoptive father
  
  Francesca Winston-Beaufort . . . Bree’s adoptive mother
  
  Cecilia “Cissy’” Carmichael . . . Francesca’s sister, Bree and Antonia’s aunt
  
  Franklin Winston-Beaufort . . . deceased, Royal’s uncle
  
  
  The Company of Angels (Angelus Street Office)
  
  Lavinia Mather . . . Bree’s landlady  
  Ronald Parchese . . .Bree’s secretary  
  Petru Lucheta . . . Bree’s paralegal  
  Armand Cianquino . . . director, retired law professor  
  Gabriel . . . the enforcer  
  Sasha . . . a guard dog
  
  
  Some Citizens of Savannah (1952)
  
  Haydee Quinn . . . a dancer at the Tropicana Tide nightclub
  
  William “Bagger Bill” Norris . . . gangster-owner, Tropicana Tide nightclub
  
  Alexander Bulloch II . . . son of Al