Slow Burn
β Scribed by Welsh-Huggins, Andrew
- Book ID
- 110474326
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 119 KB
- Series
- Andy Hayes Mystery
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Almost two years have passed since Aaron Custer supposedly set a fire at a house in Columbus that killed three college students, including the young woman with whom he had argued just hours before. Prosecutors had an ironclad case against Custer, a convicted firebug whose fingerprints were found on the lighter that started the blaze and who quickly pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty.Private investigator and fallen Ohio State football star Andy Hayes is skeptical when Custer's grandmother asks him to reopen the investigation by finding a mysterious witness who may have seen the real culprit that night. Andy's doubts fade as he uncovers a tangle of motives for the victims' deaths, implicating the state's natural gas fracking boom, drug dealers, and more. But to delve deeper, Andy must once again make amends with his past. TV reporter Suzanne Gregory, a former fiancΓ©e, has more information on the Orton Avenue fire than any journalist in town, but asking for her help means...
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