The bird boys / Lisa Sandlin.
By: Sandlin, Lisa [author.].
Material type: TextSeries: Sandlin, Lisa. Delpha Wade and Tom Phelan mystery: 2.Publisher: El Paso, Texas : Cinco Puntos Press, [2019]Edition: First edition.Description: 292 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781947627130; 1947627139.Subject(s): Brothers -- Fiction | Women ex-convicts -- Fiction | Private investigators -- Fiction | Murder -- FictionGenre/Form: Mystery fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Historical fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction) | Novels.Summary: "After a serial killer almost murdered Delpha Wade (The Do-Right, 2015), the hospital releases her into the rough hands of the Beaumont police for questioning. She doesn't deny she killed the man--in self-defense. Problem is, she's an ex-con. Self-defense was also her plea in 1959, when a knife changed hands and she buried it in the chest of a man who was raping her. Self-defense didn't keep her out of prison. Now it's 1973, and cops are still the first judges--will they charge her? Her boss, neophyte private detective Tom Phelan, has a plan. He holds her job for her, and soon they have a new client. Easy case: one brother looking for the long-lost other, but it turns out that around one of these guys, people die. Which one? Maybe the red-headed girl--the strange one who catches glimpses of the darkest places and can see into the past--can help. But only Delpha is wise enough to listen to that wild gal"--Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book - Paperback | Voorhees | Mystery | Adult | M San (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 05000010529225 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Best Crime Novels of the Year, New York Times
Sometimes the truth is not the truth, but murder is always murder. Which of the brothers carries the bloody knife?
The new novel from award-winning author Lisa Sandlin catches up with the almost-murdered secretary Delpha Wade ( The Do-Right, 2015, set in 1973) as she's released from a hospital in order to be tucked into the back seat of a police cruiser. Her boss, P. I. Tom Phelan, sets out to spring her. He needs her back in his investigation business, where he'll soon be chasing a skulking grand larcenist and plotting how to keep a ganjapreneur out of the grabby hands of a brand new agency, the D.E.A. Delpha digs through old records and knocks on strange doors to unravel the dangerous case of two brothers with beaucoup aliases--verifying that sometimes truth is not true, but murder is always murder.
Series numeration from www.goodreads.com.
Sequel to: The do-right.
"After a serial killer almost murdered Delpha Wade (The Do-Right, 2015), the hospital releases her into the rough hands of the Beaumont police for questioning. She doesn't deny she killed the man--in self-defense. Problem is, she's an ex-con. Self-defense was also her plea in 1959, when a knife changed hands and she buried it in the chest of a man who was raping her. Self-defense didn't keep her out of prison. Now it's 1973, and cops are still the first judges--will they charge her? Her boss, neophyte private detective Tom Phelan, has a plan. He holds her job for her, and soon they have a new client. Easy case: one brother looking for the long-lost other, but it turns out that around one of these guys, people die. Which one? Maybe the red-headed girl--the strange one who catches glimpses of the darkest places and can see into the past--can help. But only Delpha is wise enough to listen to that wild gal"--