Record of Wrongs - Softcover

Publisher's Weekly has featured Andy Straka as one of a new crop of "rising stars in crime fiction." His books include A WITNESS ABOVE (Anthony, Agatha, and Shamus Award finalist), A KILLING SKY (Anthony Award Finalist), COLD QUARRY (Shamus Award Winner), KITTY HITTER (called a "great read" by Library Journal), RECORD OF WRONGS, hailed by Mystery Scene magazine as "a first-rate thriller," and his most recent thriller THE BLUE HALLELUJAH. Andy is a licensed falconer and has worked as a book editor, movie production accommodation agent, commercial building owner and consulting vice president for a large specialty physician's practice, surgical implant and pharmaceutical sales representative, college textbook sales and manuscript acquisition representative, web offset press paper jogger, laborer on a city road crew, summer recreation youth director, camp counselor, youth basketball coach, assistant parts manager at an auto dealership, assistant manager at a McDonalds restaurant, and even been registered as a private investigator. (Not to mention a longstanding stint as a stay-at-home Dad to six, which makes neurosurgery look like tiddlywinks.) For more information visit andystraka.com.

.......he could make out a slender white woman behind the wheel. Middle aged, a cigarette dangling from her lips, her hair a disheveled blaze of curls, vaguely familiar. She appeared to hurry the cigarette from her mouth as she neared, leaning over to crush it out in an ashtray on the dash.

He stopped, dropped his bag again, and waited while the woman braked to a halt and rolled her window the rest of the way down.

The face. The eyes. It all came back to him then of course. Ruth Crawford.

"Hello, Quentin," she said. "Remember me?"

Quentin stared at the woman and her ugly car. "You expect me to forget?"

Her put-on smile faded a bit. "I know this must seem a little out of the ordinary."

Out of the ordinary? Caviar in the prison mess would have been out of the ordinary. This was freaky.

"You could say that," Quentin said. "Since I'm supposed to be the animal who raped and murdered your daughter."