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Andrew Welsh-Huggins

Biography

Andrew Welsh-Huggins

Andrew Welsh-Huggins is the Shamus, Derringer and International Thriller Writers award-nominated author of the Andy Hayes private eye series; author of the stand-alone crime novel THE END OF THE ROAD; and editor of the COLUMBUS NOIR anthology. His short mystery fiction has appeared in multiple magazines, including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and in many anthologies, including THE BEST MYSTERY STORIES OF THE YEAR 2021; GROOVY GUMSHOES: Private Eyes in the Psychedelic Sixties; and PARANOIA BLUES: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon. His nonfiction book, NO WINNERS HERE TONIGHT, is the definitive history of the death penalty in Ohio.

Andrew Welsh-Huggins

Books by Andrew Welsh-Huggins

by Andrew Welsh-Huggins - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Mercury Carter is a deliveryman. When a parcel is under his care, he will stop at nothing to deliver it directly to its intended recipient. Not even when he finds a crew of violent men at the indicated address that threaten his life and take the woman who lives there hostage. That’s because Carter has special skills from his former life as a federal agent with the postal inspection service, skills that make him particularly useful for delivering items in circumstances as dangerous as these. The leader of the gang escapes with attorney Rachel Stanfield before the mailman can complete his assignment. With Rachel’s husband in tow, Carter takes off in pursuit of the kidnapper and his quarry. Along the way, he uncovers a far-reaching conspiracy and a powerful crime syndicate, all in service of his main objective: to hand the package over to Rachel. Carter has never missed a delivery and isn’t about to start now.

by Andrew Welsh-Huggins - Fiction, Mystery

After years of personal and professional turmoil, things are finally looking up for Columbus, Ohio, private eye Andy Hayes. As SICK TO DEATH opens, Andy is relishing his new gig: a drama-free, family-friendly stint as a guard at the Columbus Museum of Art. However, Andy’s newfound equilibrium comes crashing down when he interrupts the theft of a painting by famed Ashcan school realist George Bellows --- and is promptly fired for breaking museum protocols. Helping him thwart the robbers is Alex Rutledge, the adult daughter he never knew he had, the result of a one-night stand during his misspent youth a quarter century earlier. Alex wants to hire her newly discovered father to find the driver who killed her mother five months earlier in a still unsolved hit-skip accident.

by Andrew Welsh-Huggins - Fiction, Noir, Suspense, Thriller

Myles’ courtroom testimony should have put Pryor, their one-eyed ringleader, behind bars after the bank robbery gone wrong, yet somehow Pryor got off scot-free while Myles served time. Now, upon his release, Myles decides he is done with his life of wrongdoing --- a change that will only be possible if he can kill Pryor and turn over a new leaf. Pryor has other ideas, and the collision between these two deadly forces soon leaves the ex-con in critical condition. With Myles in recovery, it’s up to his girlfriend, Penny, to avenge her lover and salvage their chance at normalcy. As Pryor and his cronies prepare for their biggest score yet --- targeting a vulnerable small-town Ohio bank on a day when Amish farmers arrive with hefty cash deposits --- Penny is hot on their heels. But is she prepared for the carnage Pryor will gleefully wreak on the path to his prize?