Andrew Welsh-Huggins

• Apr-2014
• / Mystery
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The job seems easy enough at first for private investigator Andy Hayes: save his client’s reputation by retrieving a laptop and erasing a troublesome video from its hard drive. But that’s before someone breaks into Andy’s apartment in Columbus;...

• Apr-2015
• / Mystery
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Almost two years have passed since Aaron Custer supposedly set a fire at a house in Columbus that killed three college students, including the young woman with whom he had argued just hours before. Prosecutors had an ironclad case against Custer, a c...

• Apr-2016
• / Mystery
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The job seems simple enough: Reporter Lee Hershey needs protection for a couple of weeks as he pursues the biggest story of his career with all eyes on swing state Ohio in the midst of a presidential election. Columbus private eye Andy Hayes, broke a...

• Apr-2017
• / Mystery
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As a serial killer stalks prostitutes in Columbus, Ohio, a distraught brother asks private investigator Andy Hayes to find his sister before it’s too late. In a deadly race against time, Andy soon learns he’s not the only person hunting Jessica B...

• Apr-2018
• / Mystery
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It’s a violent encounter that private investigator Andy Hayes could have done without. One minute he’s finishing up some grocery shopping ahead of a custody visit with his sons. The next, he must come to the rescue of a Somali American mother and...

• Apr-2019
• / Mystery
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Judge Laura Porter fiercely guarded her privacy, and never more so than during her long-running -- and long in the past -- affair with disgraced quarterback-turned-private investigator Andy Hayes. Now she’s missing, disappeared just hours after she...

• Mar-2020
• / Mystery
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O-H-Oh-No! Fourteen storytellers reveal a gritty side to C-Bus in this collection of crime tales.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all-new stories, ...

• Jun-2021
• / Police Procedural
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Private investigator Andy Hayes takes the assignment against his better judgment.In 1979, a high-profile burglar shot a cop, was apprehended, and then disappeared without ever being prosecuted. Forty years later, after the wounded cop’s suicide, hi...

• Dec-2021
• / General Fiction
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Ohio prisons investigator Lt. LaShondra Qualls and State Highway Patrol Det. Karl Heintz are stumped. Why would inmate Daniel O'Connor, with a clean behavior record inside and one week left before release, escape from his work camp detail and go on t...

• Nov-2022
• / Police Procedural
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When a young couple driving cross country go suddenly missing in rural South Dakota, it’s up to Sheriff Frank Calhoun, with the help of a rookie deputy, to figure out whether foul play was involved in a county suspicious of outsiders....

• Apr-2023
• / Thriller
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A Library Journal Best Thriller Book of the YearA bank robber tries to leave behind his life of crime after serving his time. But getting out isn’t so easy.Myles’s courtroom testimony should have put Pryor, their one-eyed ringleader, behind bars ...

• Jan-2024
• / Police Procedural
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After breaking the news to a lonely heart client that he’s the victim of a catfishing scheme, private eye Andy Hayes must act fast when additional victims of the same fraud show up armed, angry, and demanding retribution....

• Sep-2024
• / Thriller
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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 Muse...

• Feb-2025
• / General Fiction
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In a new thriller from the author of The End of the Road, a former postal inspection agent tracks a violent crew through the Midwest to rescue a kidnapped woman. Mercury Carter is a deliveryman and he takes his job very seriously. When a parcel is un...