Andrew Welsh-Huggins launches second thriller in Mercury Carter series!

Join award-winning writer Andrew Welsh-Huggins as he launches his fast-paced, unpredictable thriller, The Delivery, the second in his critically acclaimed Mercury Carter thriller series. Welsh-Huggins will be in conversation with New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning Young Adult author Natalie Richards.

The admission fee is waived with the pre-purchase of The Delivery. The book will also be available at the event.

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Freelance courier Mercury Carter races against time and across New England to rescue a trafficking victim in this new thriller from the author of The Mailman. Merc Carter is not your typical deliveryman. A former postal inspector, he specializes in moving sensitive or dangerous packages—of all sorts—from point A to B. And sometimes he needs his gun to do so.

Carter’s current mission leads him to Providence, Rhode Island, but his delivery is interrupted when he comes across a woman badly injured in a car wreck in the pouring rain. Then a man with a gun appears warning Carter away from the scene and Carter leaps into action, disarming the attacker and rescuing the crash victim.

Just as Carter thinks the danger has passed, he discovers a deeper mystery stemming from the crash, a deadly puzzle involving a memorable pair of grifters, a crooked ex-cop, stolen identities, human trafficking, and murder. And it appears that Carter’s next assignment will put him right in this conspiracy’s perilous center . . .

The follow-up to last year’s acclaimed hit, The Mailman, which launched the Mercury Carter series, The Delivery is a fast-paced, unpredictable thriller following a memorable protagonist whose resourcefulness is matched only by his quick wit and determination to never miss a delivery.

Andrew Welsh-Huggins writes the critically acclaimed Mercury Carter thriller series and the Shamus Award–nominated Andy Hayes private eye series. Andrew’s short mystery stories have appeared in multiple magazines and anthologies, including The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021, 2024, and 2025.

Natalie D. Richards is a New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of page turning thrillers and middle-grade adventure novels including 49 Miles Alone, Four Found Dead, Seven Dirty Secrets, Five Total Strangers, Six Months Later, and One Was Lost. She lives in Ohio with her three children and very large dog, Wookiee.