Ten years after winning the Agatha Award for Best First Novel, Art Taylor's debut book is on the road again.

Del's a small-time crook with a moral conscience-robbing convenience stores for tuition and academic expenses. Brash and sassy Louise goes from being a holdup victim to Del's lover and accomplice. Hitching their meager fortunes together, they set out in search of a fresh start, an honest life, and a chance to build a family. Fueled by road-trip energy and rom-com vibes, their journey takes them cross-country-with pit stops into every brand of suspense: a real-estate scam in Southern California, a screwball heist in Napa Valley, a hold-up in a Vegas wedding chapel, and a wintry detour into North Dakota noir before a sharp turn toward Louise's home state of North Carolina. But is home where the heart is-or just another brand of heartache threatening their happily-ever-after?

Find out in a novel in stories that the Washington Independent Review of Books praised as "sweet, endearing, charming, quirky, a delightful romp."

Art Taylor is the Edgar Award-winning author of two short story collections: The Adventure of the Castle Thief and Other Expeditions and Indiscretions (2023) and The Boy Detective & The Summer of '74 and Other Tales of Suspense (2020). His debut book, On the Road with Del & Louise (2015), won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. He has won three additional Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, four Macavity Awards, and four Derringer Awards for his short fiction, and he was the 2025 recipient of the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement. His work has also appeared in Best American Mystery Stories and Best American Mystery and Suspense, and he has edited several mystery anthologies, including Murder Under the Oaks: Bouchercon Anthology 2015, winner of the Anthony Award for Best Anthology or Collection. He is a professor of English at George Mason University. Find him at www.arttaylorwriter.com.