Andy Hayes #07: An Empty Grave

Andy Hayes #07: An Empty Grave
Andrew Welsh-Huggins
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Trade Paperback
h216 x 140mm - 264pg
15 Jun 2021 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9780804012324
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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, his son, Preston Campbell, is convinced there' s been a cover-up that allowed his father' s attacker to go free. At first, Hayes dismisses Campbell' s outlandish conspiracy theories. But when a mysterious Cold War connection to the burglar emerges, the investigation heats up, and Hayes discovers a series of deaths that seem to be connected, one way or another, to the missing criminal. Nothing seems to add up, though, and Hayes finds himself hurtling headlong down a decades-old path of deadly secrets. In the midst of cracking the cold case, Hayes has another mystery to solve closer to home: What' s been troubling his younger son, Joe, and why is his ex-wife so eager to have the boy out of her house? Further complicating matters, Hayes learns that another private eye, the captivating but inscrutable Hillary Quinne, is also on the trail of the vanished burglar and needs Hayes' s help. As their professional and personal lives blur, Hayes wonders what he' s gotten himself into, and whether he really wants out.

#07: An Empty Grave

"Columbus PI Andy Hayes never disappoints, and An Empty Grave is no exception. This latest installment of the Andy Hayes Series hooks readers from page one with all the ingredients for suspense. With a keen eye for fascinating crime and clever prose, Andrew Welsh-Huggins is a writer that will leave detective fiction fans in hard-boiled heaven. " -- Meredith Doench, author of the Luce Hansen Thriller series "Welsh-Huggins has created a truly hard-boiled, streetwise detective that, in spite of a tarnished history, some severe character flaws, and an acidic tongue, has survived and thrived in this series. And likeably so. " -- Robin Yocum, author of A Brilliant Death "The grave is empty and the murderers are loose in Welsh-Huggins' s latest thriller. In this exhilarating mash-up of wry wit, dogged detective work, and lethal adversaries, PI Andy Hayes exhumes a forty-year-old cold case loaded with mystery and mayhem. A compelling, up-to-the-minute read. " -- Annie Hogsett, author of the Somebody' s Bound to Wind Up Dead Mysteries Series "An Empty Grave, the latest gripping installment in the PI Andy Hayes series, will hook you from page one. Hayes, the deeply flawed ex-football-player-turned-private-eye reluctantly takes on the case of a possible cover-up in the disappearance of a high-profile burglar who shot a cop in 1979 and then disappeared. With a journalist' s eye for details, clever, muscular prose, and dialogue as sharp as cut glass, this is Welsh-Huggins' s best yet. " -- Connie Barry, author of the Kate Hamilton Mysteries series "[Welsh-Huggins] excels at storytelling. With a reporter' s eye and a novelist' s flair, he raises the bar with each entry in his series. And his deepening development of Andy adds gravitas. " * Richmond Times-Dispatch *
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, his son, Preston Campbell, is convinced there' s been a cover-up that allowed his father' s attacker to go free. At first, Hayes dismisses Campbell' s outlandish conspiracy theories. But when a mysterious Cold War connection to the burglar emerges, the investigation heats up, and Hayes discovers a series of deaths that seem to be connected, one way or another, to the missing criminal. Nothing seems to add up, though, and Hayes finds himself hurtling headlong down a decades-old path of deadly secrets. In the midst of cracking the cold case, Hayes has another mystery to solve closer to home: What' s been troubling his younger son, Joe, and why is his ex-wife so eager to have the boy out of her house? Further complicating matters, Hayes learns that another private eye, the captivating but inscrutable Hillary Quinne, is also on the trail of the vanished burglar and needs Hayes' s help. As their professional and personal lives blur, Hayes wonders what he' s gotten himself into, and whether he really wants out.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780804012324
Published: 15 Jun 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Swallow Press
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 264

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