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

      Cooking with Crisco!

       Dedicated to librarians everywhere

      Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

      JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

      CONTENTS

       CHAPTER I

       CHAPTER II

       CHAPTER III

       CHAPTER IV

       CHAPTER V

       CHAPTER VI

       CHAPTER VII

       CHAPTER VIII

       CHAPTER IX

       CHAPTER X

       CHAPTER XI

       CHAPTER XII

       CHAPTER XIII

       CHAPTER XIV

       CHAPTER XV

       CHAPTER XVI

       CHAPTER XVII

       CHAPTER XVIII

       CHAPTER XIX

       CHAPTER XX

       CHAPTER XXI

       CHAPTER XXII

       CHAPTER XXIII

       CHAPTER XXIV

       CHAPTER XXV

       CHAPTER XXVI

       CHAPTER XXVII

       CHAPTER


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