Andrew Welsh-Huggins is the Shamus Award-nominated author of the Andy Hayes Private Eye series, the standalone crime novel The End of the Road, and editor of Columbus Noir. His short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Mystery Magazine, the anthology The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021, the 2021 Bouchercon anthology This Time for Sure, and other magazines and anthologies. His nonfiction book, No Winners Here Tonight, is the definitive history of the death penalty in Ohio.