Ohio State and Cleveland Browns quarterback turned investigator, and editor of Columbus Noir. His stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Mystery Magazine, the 2022 anthology Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon, and other magazines and anthologies.
[ My Book, The Movie: An Empty Grave; Q&A with Andrew Welsh-Huggins; The Page 69 Test: An Empty Grave; Writers Read: Andrew Welsh-Huggins (April 2023); My Book, The Movie: The End of the Road; The Page 69 Test: The End of the Road; Writers Read: Andrew Welsh-Huggins (November 2024); My Book, The Movie: Sick to Death; The Page 69 Test: Sick to Death]
Welsh-Huggins's newest thriller is The Mailman.
At CrimeReads the author tagged "seven lone-wolf protagonists whose adventures helped inspire The Mailman." One entry on the list:
James Byrne’s Desmond Aloysius LimerickRead about another entry on the list.
There’s pretty much nothing not to like about Byrne’s enormously entertaining Limerick (Dez to his friends), who first appeared in 2022’s The Gatekeeper.Starting with Dez’ military-grade combat and tech skills and moving onto a murky past that hints at mercenary action but who really knows; a tossed salad of various UK accents (“From England?” “Thereabouts.”); his moral compass; and above all his opinions on beer.
Finding out who attacked a client is important, Dez notes in The Gatekeeper. “Just not important enough to drink a typical American beer. Nothing’s worth that.”
As The Gatekeeper opens, Dez—“five-eight but built like a tank”—is relaxing in his 18th-floor LA hotel room after a night playing bass guitar at a club when he happens to look outside, spots a sniper on the opposite roof, and leaps into action without being sure whose day he’s about to save. You can only pray for the bad actors after this.
Q&A with James Byrne.
The Page 69 Test: Deadlock.
My Book, The Movie: Deadlock.
The Page 69 Test: Chain Reaction.
My Book, The Movie: Chain Reaction.
--Marshal Zeringue
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