The Do-Right by Lisa Sandlin

The Do-Right by Lisa Sandlin

Winner of the 2015 Dashiell Hammett Prize and 2016 Shamus Award

1959. Delpha Wade killed a man who was raping her. Wanted to kill the other one too, but he got away. Now, after fourteen years in prison, she's out. It's 1973, and nobody's rushing to hire a parolee. Persistence and smarts land her a secretarial job with Tom Phelan, an ex-roughneck turned neophyte private eye. Together these two pry into the dark corners of Beaumont, a blue-collar, Cajun-influenced town dominated by Big Oil. A mysterious client plots mayhem against a small petrochemical company-why? Searching for a teenage boy, Phelan uncovers the weird lair of a serial killer. And Delpha--on a weekend outing--looks into the eyes of her rapist, the one who got away. The novel's conclusion is classic noir, full of surprise, excitement, and karmic justice. Sandlin's elegant prose, twisting through the dark thickets of human passion, allows Delpha to open her heart again to friendship, compassion, and sexuality.

Lisa Sandlin's story Phelan's First Case was anthologized in Lone Star Noir and was later re-anthologized in Akashic's Best of the Noir series, USA Noir. The Do-Right is her first full-length mystery. Lisa was born in Beaumont, currently lives and teaches in Omaha, Nebraska, and summers in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

LISA SANDLIN is the author of three previous books of short stories, In the River Province, Message to the Nurse of Dreams, The Famous Thing About Death, and the co-editor of an anthology, Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace. She has received an NEA Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, a Dobie Paisano Fellowship from the Texas Institute of Letters, and numerous other awards. Sandlin is an Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. CATHERINE FERGUSON was born in Mexico, and comes from a family of painters. She was called to her life's work by a picture of the Virgin of Guadalupe, which she saw as a child. Her work has been shown and sold throughout the Southwest, appearing in museums, galleries, and on book covers. Ferguson lives in Galisteo, New Mexico.

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ISBN 13	9781941026199
ISBN 10	1941026192
Title	The Do-Right
Author	Lisa Sandlin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cinco Puntos Press,U.S.
Year published	2015-11-12
Number of pages	306
Prizes	Winner of Best First Private Eye Novel | Shamus Awards (United States)., Winner of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Debut Novel (United States)., Winner of The Hammett Prize (United States)., Long-listed for Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2015 2015 (United States), Long-listed for Kirkus Reviews’ Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2015 2015 (United States)
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