Order of Andrew Welsh-Huggins Books
Andrew Welsh-Huggins is an American author of crime fiction novels and non-fiction books. He writes the Andy Hayes series. Andrew is an editor and reporter for the Associated Press in Columbus. His short story The Murderous Type won the 2017 Al Blanchard Award for best New England short crime fiction.
Andrew Welsh-Huggins made his debut as an author in 2009 with the non-fiction book No Winners Here Tonight. His first novel was 2014’s Fourth Down and Out, beginning his Andy Hayes series. Below is a list of Andrew Welsh-Huggins’ books in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of Andy Hayes Books
Fourth Down and Out | (2014) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Slow Burn | (2015) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Capitol Punishment | (2016) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Hunt | (2017) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Third Brother | (2018) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Fatal Judgment | (2019) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
An Empty Grave | (2021) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Guns + Tacos Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
Down & Out: The Magazine Volume 1 Issue 2 | (2017) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Columbus Noir | (2020) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Mystery Tribune / Issue Nº12: Winter 2020 | (2020) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Andrew Welsh Huggins Synopsis: Fourth Down and Out is the first book in the Andy Hayes series. 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; before someone else, armed with a shotgun, relieves him of the laptop; and before the FBI suddenly shows up on his doorstep asking questions.
Soon, there’s a growing list of people with a claim on the computer, all of them with secrets they don’t want uncovered. When one of those people ends up dead, Andy has his hands full convincing authorities he’s not responsible, while trying to figure out who is – and who’s got the laptop – before someone else dies. Soon the trail leads to the last place Andy wants to go: back to Ohio State University, where few have forgiven him for a mistake he made two decades earlier in his days as the Buckeyes’ star quarterback. That misjudgment sent him on a downward spiral that cost him a playing career, two marriages, several wrecked relationships, and above all his legacy in Ohio’s capital city, where the fortunes of the OSU team are never far from people’s minds.
As Andy tracks a laptop and a killer from the toniest of the city’s suburbs to its grittiest neighborhoods, he must confront a dark figure from his past and prove that this time he won’t drop the ball.