Andrew Welsh Huggins Books in Order

A deeply reported history of Ohio’s death penalty, told through legal battles, political choices, and individual cases. Welsh-Huggins examines how race, geography, and uneven justice shape who receives society’s harshest punishment.

This nonfiction account follows the terrorism investigations and prosecutions of three men linked by Columbus, Ohio. It examines radicalization, law enforcement, civil liberties, and the difficult choices made in the years after September 11.

Private eye Andy Hayes is hired to recover a laptop and erase one damaging video. When the laptop disappears and someone dies, the case forces the disgraced former quarterback back toward his painful Ohio State past.

Andy Hayes doubts a grandmother’s claim that her grandson was framed for a fatal house fire. But a missing witness and conflicting motives draw him into a case involving drug dealers, fracking, and old emotional wounds.

A murder at the Ohio Statehouse places Andy Hayes in a poisonous political fight. With an innocent man jailed, more lives at risk, and someone following him, he must find the truth before the next attack.

A desperate brother hires Andy Hayes to find his missing sister as a serial killer preys on women in Columbus. Andy races through a case that exposes trafficking networks and people who may not want her found alive.

After helping a Somali American family targeted by bullies, Andy Hayes is hired to find a missing teenager. The search grows more urgent when the boy is accused of plotting a terrorist attack in Columbus.

When a local judge and Andy Hayes’s former girlfriend disappears, the case leads him to a central Ohio swamp. Her pending environmental ruling has created enemies, and Andy must learn which one is willing to murder.

A compact standalone crime story from the Guns + Tacos series, where a weapon, a meal, and a dangerous situation collide. It delivers a quick dose of noir-tinged trouble in a short format.

Private investigator Andy Hayes reopens a forty-year-old case involving a cop’s shooting and a vanished burglar. As a Cold War connection and a string of deaths emerge, Andy finds old secrets still have the power to kill.

When a young couple vanishes while driving across rural South Dakota, Sheriff Frank Calhoun takes the case. With help from a rookie deputy, he must decide whether the disappearance is an accident or something much darker.

Fresh from prison, Myles wants to leave crime behind, but his former boss Pryor has revenge on his mind. With Myles badly wounded, his girlfriend Penny pursues Pryor as he plans one more brutal small-town heist.

Andy Hayes exposes a catfishing scam targeting a lonely client, then finds angry victims demanding payback. He has to move fast when the fraud draws armed people into the case.

Andy Hayes discovers he has an adult daughter, Alex, who hires him to investigate her mother’s fatal hit-and-run. The trail may lead back to the victim’s work as an ICU nurse during the worst of COVID.

Freelance courier Mercury Carter arrives at an Indianapolis home to make a delivery and finds a violent gang instead. When they abduct a woman, he launches a dangerous pursuit across the Midwest to bring her home.

Andy Hayes becomes bodyguard to a drag performer threatened by stalkers. Protecting his client means confronting his own assumptions while uncovering signs of a larger and more dangerous plot.

Mercury Carter’s New England delivery run becomes a search for a missing woman after she leaves him a ring and a clue. His investigation uncovers exploitation, healthcare fraud, and criminals desperate to protect stolen data.

Mercury Carter heads west with a prized toy for a young child and a lead on his father’s killer. A hostage crisis and a missing man pull him into a criminal conspiracy stretching from Los Angeles to northern Arizona.