The Third Brother
An Andy Hayes Mystery
Published on 5. April 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-8040-1220-1 (ISBN)
Description
It's a violent encounter that private investigator Andy Hayes could have done without. One minute he's finishing up some grocery shopping ahead of a custody visit with his sons. The next, he must come to the rescue of a Somali American mother and her young children as anti-immigrant bullies torment them.
Grateful for his intervention, the Somali community hires Andy to find a missing teenager who vanished without a trace and is now accused of plotting a terror attack in his adopted hometown of Columbus, Ohio. The government is certain that nineteen-year-old Abdi Mohamed followed in the footsteps of his brother, who died in Syria a few months earlier in a jihadi assault. But Mohamed's family isn't convinced, describing a soccer-loving American kid who renounced his brother's actions and planned to attend college in the fall and become a diplomat someday.
Soon Andy is fending off fed-up FBI agents and dueling with a mysterious foe with links to the white supremacist movement. As he draws ever closer to the truth behind Mohamed's disappearance, Hayes stumbles onto a conspiracy that could put hundreds of lives in danger, including his own two boys.
Grateful for his intervention, the Somali community hires Andy to find a missing teenager who vanished without a trace and is now accused of plotting a terror attack in his adopted hometown of Columbus, Ohio. The government is certain that nineteen-year-old Abdi Mohamed followed in the footsteps of his brother, who died in Syria a few months earlier in a jihadi assault. But Mohamed's family isn't convinced, describing a soccer-loving American kid who renounced his brother's actions and planned to attend college in the fall and become a diplomat someday.
Soon Andy is fending off fed-up FBI agents and dueling with a mysterious foe with links to the white supremacist movement. As he draws ever closer to the truth behind Mohamed's disappearance, Hayes stumbles onto a conspiracy that could put hundreds of lives in danger, including his own two boys.
Reviews / Votes
"An anti-immigrant attack propels Welsh-Huggins's timely fifth mystery featuring Columbus, Ohio, PI Andy Hayes....Welsh-Huggins educates and entertains as he explores immigrant issues through his empathetic hero's investigation." (Publishers Weekly) "Ohio P.I. Andy 'Woody' Hayes has ex-wives to support, a penchant for rubbing people the wrong way, and with a sideways code of honor that makes him a knight in tin-foil armor. In other words, Andy Hayes is a lot of fun. Andrew Welsh-Huggins spins a tale of intrigue and a human warmth surprising for the genre. He's a writer on the rise." "[Welsh-Huggins] excels at storytelling. With a reporter's eye and a novelist's flair, he raises the bar with each entry in his series. And his deepening development of Andy adds gravitas.The Third Brother gives frightening and poignant voice to the scourges of bigotry, whether from jihadists, white supremacists, zealots of any stripe - and even people who silently assume the worst of those who differ in appearance or background." (Richmond Times-Dispatch) Praise for the Andy Hayes Mysteries:"This series gets better with each book."
(Publishers Weekly) Praise for the Andy Hayes Mysteries:
"Andy is a likable, cynical, at times humorous, and always witty protagonist with a penchant for trouble."
(Mystery Scene) Praise for the Andy Hayes Mysteries:
"Call [The Hunt] Rust Belt noir. Call it a hybrid of whodunit and thriller. But above all, call it splendid - and this talented author's best yet."
(Richmond Times-Dispatch) Praise for the Andy Hayes Mysteries:
"Welsh-Huggins has a way with language...[He] is an Associated Press reporter, and the urge to bring the news is an unkillable one."
(Booklist) Praise for the Andy Hayes Mysteries:
"Andrew Welsh-Huggins proves himself a master of heartland noir."
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Ohio
United States
Publishing group
Ohio University Press
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8040-1220-1 (9780804012201)
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E-Book
04/2018
1st Edition
Swallow Press
€15.49
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Person
Andrew Welsh-Huggins is the Shamus, Derringer, and International Thriller Writers award-nominated author of the Andy Hayes private eye series; author of the standalone crime novel The End of the Road; and editor of the Columbus Noir anthology. His short mystery fiction has appeared in multiple magazines, including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and in many anthologies, including The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021; Groovy Gumshoes: Private Eyes in the Psychedelic Sixties; and Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon. His nonfiction book, No Winners Here Tonight, is the definitive history of the death penalty in Ohio.