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--Act of God, Blunt Darts, Foursome, Invasion of Privacy, The Only Good Lawyer, Rescue, Right to Die, Shallow Graves, The Staked Goat, and Yesterday"s News--are available in paperback. --Dick Adler