This time around, Hughes channels his creative energies into a new course in the upcoming South By Southwest Wales. The title is a pun on the classic film North By Northwest, but the jokes end there—the novel is a nail-biting mystery thriller featuring down on their luck detectives, grimy criminals, and frowning cityscapes. Hughes leverages his gifts of vivid description and imaginative worldbuilding to such effect that you can almost envision the book coming to life on a black-and-white film reel—and narrated by James Cagney, no less.
South By Southwest Wales will be released in mid- to late 2018 in paperback, audiobook, and all ebook formats.