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Tony Hays has lived the lives of many of his fictional characters, almost literally "tinker, tailor, soldier, spy". His two earlier historical mysteries, Murder on the Twelfth Night and Murder in the Latin Quarter (Iris Press), both earned critical accolades, including a nomination for the Tennessee Volunteer Book Award for Murder on the Twelfth Night. His short fiction has been published in literary journals across the US and Japan. Hays' articles on drug trafficking won his local newspaper the 2000 Public Service Award from the Tennessee Press Association.
While working on a sequel to The Killing Way, Tony has also been putting the finishing touches on an annotated edition of the 19th century book, An Authenticated History of the Famous Bell Witch, the book which served as the inspiration for the film The Blair Witch Project and the more recent An American Haunting. The Killing Way will be published by Tor/Forge.
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The Killing Way
by Tony Hays
Tony Hays introduces readers to an older era investigator who relies on his keen eyes to see the unnoticed small clues crucial to solving a mystery: Malgwyn, the one-armed scribe. The Killing Way depicts King Arthur in the rugged post-Roman era, a time when a king could walk about a village without a retinue trailing behind. This is not the romantic Camelot of knights in shining armor seeking the Grail. Instead, Hays offers a historically accurate portrayal of life in Britain with a tale of murder and Arthur spun cleverly into it.
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