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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