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]
Welsh-Huggins's newest novel, the eighth Andy Hayes mystery, is Sick to Death.
At CrimeReads the author tagged seven "crime novels that incorporate COVID-19 within their pages," including:
What Never Happened, by Rachel Howzell HallRead about another book on the list.
Obituary writer Colette “Coco” Weber relocates to her home on Catalina Island off the coast of California in March 2020. As the island slowly shuts down, whatbegins as Weber’s attempt to reset her life grows dark when Weber suspects that deaths on the island may be related to a brutal tragedy in her past. Incorporating COVID was on Hall’s mind even before she began writing the first page of the novel, published in 2023, Hall told Cara Wood of Dead Darlings.
“It was one of the first times in modern history that we had to stay away from each other, for-real-for real, or risk catching the virus and possibly dying,” Hall said. “COVID was the apex experience of isolation, even in a city as big as Los Angeles. And then, add the masks—you couldn’t see people, their expressions. You couldn’t determine if that person is a bandit or simply a guy wearing a mask because of the mandate.”
--Marshal Zeringue
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