Charlottesville Words

New Dominion Bookshop will host
Andy Straka for a discussion and a book-signing
of his new novel, Record of Wrongs,
on Thursday, February 28 at 5:30 pm

Andy will be introduced at the reading by Nancy Damon, Program Director of the Virginia Festival of the Book.

Freed from prison when a new round of DNA testing casts doubt on his guilt, Quentin Price is about to confront a figure from his past who will make him an offer difficult to refuse: the chance to help solve the crime that put him behind bars. There is only one problem. What if Quentin is guilty? And what if the person he is about to meet appears the most improbable ally of all? In Record of Wrongs, a thriller that crackles with a palpable sense of loss, Price, a former college security guard, balks when asked to join in a search for the real killer by the white mother of the student he was convicted of raping and murdering.

Relentless tension, an intriguing plot and characters you feel in your bones. A compulsively readable, gripping thriller. — Julia Spencer-Fleming

Andy Straka is also the author of the Shamus Award winning Frank Pavlicek mysteries, featuring an ex-NYPD detective turned Virginia falconer and PI.

One of the founders of the popular Crime Wave@VABook program during the annual Virginia Festival of The Book, Andy also participates in the Crime Lab Project, a national group of crime writers and their friends and readers who are concerned about the gap between the public’s beliefs about the current state of forensic science and the reality faced by the many underfunded, understaffed labs and coroners’ offices throughout the country.

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