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Episode 75: Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Sunday morning, the quiet kind that I don’t get enough of. Until a minute ago I’d been on my second cup of coffee, reading Dreamland and starting to think about breakfast. Hopalong, dozing at my feet, stirred briefly as my phone went off. I saw from caller ID it was Burke Cunningham. I almost didn’t answer, and not just because I liked listening to my new ringtone. A call from Cunningham on a Sunday morning was like the cluck of a dentist as she works on your teeth. The news can’t be good. On the other hand, because he’s one of the most sought-after defense attorneys in Columbus, Ohio, the news would probably involve a job, which I could use right at the moment. But it also meant an end to a quiet Sunday morning of the kind I don’t get enough of. I answered anyway. Unlike my conscience, my bank balance always gets the better of me.
“What’d the cops say?”
“They said it was a good thing I didn’t get my ass shot.”
“They did not.”
“Perhaps I’m paraphrasing.”
“Any leads?”
“Not at the moment. They took the info. Put out a news release.”
“I saw the coverage. You’re a hero, again.”
“Slow news day. A zoo baby would have bumped me off the lineup in a heartbeat.”
-- Andrew Welsh-Huggins, The Third Brother
Andrew Welsh-Huggins is a crime reporter and author of the Andy Hayes private eye mystery series. You can sign up for his newsletter on his website and keep up with him on Twitter and Facebook. And you can follow his recommendations for some of his own favorite PI reads, including Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone series (and whenever the wonderful Sue Grafton is mentioned, I like to give a plug for the work of her father, C.W. Grafton, The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope and The Rope Began to Hang the Butcher, two of my all-time favorite mysteries).
Andrew also gives a shout out to Robert B. Parker's Spenser and Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series, and authors Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald, and John D. MacDonald as masters of the PI genre.
Here are Andrew's own Andy Hayes books, in order:
1 - Fourth Down and Out
2 - Slow Burn
3 - Capitol Punishment
4 - The Hunt
5 -
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By Laura BrennanSunday morning, the quiet kind that I don’t get enough of. Until a minute ago I’d been on my second cup of coffee, reading Dreamland and starting to think about breakfast. Hopalong, dozing at my feet, stirred briefly as my phone went off. I saw from caller ID it was Burke Cunningham. I almost didn’t answer, and not just because I liked listening to my new ringtone. A call from Cunningham on a Sunday morning was like the cluck of a dentist as she works on your teeth. The news can’t be good. On the other hand, because he’s one of the most sought-after defense attorneys in Columbus, Ohio, the news would probably involve a job, which I could use right at the moment. But it also meant an end to a quiet Sunday morning of the kind I don’t get enough of. I answered anyway. Unlike my conscience, my bank balance always gets the better of me.
“What’d the cops say?”
“They said it was a good thing I didn’t get my ass shot.”
“They did not.”
“Perhaps I’m paraphrasing.”
“Any leads?”
“Not at the moment. They took the info. Put out a news release.”
“I saw the coverage. You’re a hero, again.”
“Slow news day. A zoo baby would have bumped me off the lineup in a heartbeat.”
-- Andrew Welsh-Huggins, The Third Brother
Andrew Welsh-Huggins is a crime reporter and author of the Andy Hayes private eye mystery series. You can sign up for his newsletter on his website and keep up with him on Twitter and Facebook. And you can follow his recommendations for some of his own favorite PI reads, including Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone series (and whenever the wonderful Sue Grafton is mentioned, I like to give a plug for the work of her father, C.W. Grafton, The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope and The Rope Began to Hang the Butcher, two of my all-time favorite mysteries).
Andrew also gives a shout out to Robert B. Parker's Spenser and Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series, and authors Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald, and John D. MacDonald as masters of the PI genre.
Here are Andrew's own Andy Hayes books, in order:
1 - Fourth Down and Out
2 - Slow Burn
3 - Capitol Punishment
4 - The Hunt
5 -