MYSTERY

Sick to Death

Swallow. (Andy Hayes Mysteries, Bk. 8). Sept. 2024. 232p. ISBN 9780804012539. pap. $21.95. M
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Private investigator Andy Hayes, a security guard at the Columbus Museum of Art, thwarts the theft of a George Bellows painting (with the help of a young woman) but is fired for giving chase. He soon learns that the young woman, Alex Rutledge, is his daughter, the result of a one-night stand during Hayes’s vaguely remembered past. She hires Hayes to investigate the death of her mother in a hit-and-run five months earlier. Alex’s mother, Kate, was an ICU nurse at the height of the COVID pandemic, when anti-vaxxers were protesting and people were dying. As Hayes asks questions, he begins to suspect Kate’s death might not have been an accident. His focus is on that case, but he has to juggle the FBI’s questions about his involvement in the attempted art theft. Hayes, who tries to do the right thing, bumbles along until he makes his usual mess and finds solutions to both cases.
VERDICT The eighth in this excellent PI series (following An Empty Grave) also stands alone. Recommended for fans of detectives with a troubled past and a nose for crime.
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