The Bird Boys. Lisa Sandlin
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Praise for
The Do-Right
The first
Delpha Wade and Tom Phelan Mystery
WINNER
The Dashiell Hammett Prize, 2015
The Shamus Award, 2016
BEST OF LISTS
Kirkus Reviews Best Books 2015
Kirkus Reviews Best Mysteries and Thrillers 2015
Kirkus Reviews Best Debut
REVIEWS
This book is flat out excellent…I heartily recommend it.
—Sheryl Cotleur, Copperfield’s Books
Delpha Wade is conscientiously following her parole officer’s rules for finding a place to live and a job: act as polite as possible and ask for what she needs.…Sandlin blends pathos, humor, and poetic prose in a strong debut.
—Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW
Sandlin’s clipped prose style is pleasingly eccentric, and can become downright Chandleresque (“The nose had a curve a school bus’d run off of.”)
—Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
When a critic praises a writer’s original voice, what does that really mean? In the case of Texas native Lisa Sandlin, it means dog-earing page after page in her novel The Do-Right to reread particularly terrific passages or, even better, share them aloud…
—Dallas Morning News
Sandlin makes fantastic use of familiar, archetypal characters—the neophyte sleuth, the woman with the troubled past, etcetera, etcetera—and brings new life into them by crafting narrative that, past the surface of an exciting detective story, seems to search for a sense of grace or forgiveness…This novel has it all—murder, mystery, abuse, corporate espionage. Take your pick. The prose reads like movie stills from an old detective flick. —Killer Nashville
THE BIRD BOYS
A DELPHA WADE AND TOM PHELAN MYSTERY
THE BIRD BOYS
A DELPHA WADE AND TOM PHELAN MYSTERY
LISA SANDLIN
The Bird Boys: A Delpha Wade and Tom Phelan Mystery. Copyright © 2019 by Lisa Sandlin. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in case of brief quotations for reviews. For information, write Cinco Puntos Press, 701 Texas, El Paso, TX 79901 or call us at (915) 838-1625.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Sandlin, Lisa, author.
Title: The bird boys : a Delpha Wade and Tom Phelan mystery / Lisa Sandlin.
Description: First edition. | El Paso, Texas : Cinco Puntos Press, [2019] Identifiers: LCCN 2018049003 | ISBN 978-1-947627-13-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 978-1-947627-14-7 (e-book)
Subjects: | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3569.A5168 B57 2019 | DDC 813/.54—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018049003
The cover photo is called “Nevermore,” and was taken by the amazing photographer KEITH CARTER in 1985 and used with his permission.
Like Lisa Sandlin, Keith is a native of Beaumont, Texas.
Book and cover design by ANNE M. GIANGIULIO
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