Review: THE DO-RIGHT by Lisa Sandlin
I reviewed The Do-Right (Cinco Puntos Press) by Lisa Sandlin for Lone Star Literary Life! From the review:
The Do-Right (an old Southern term for prison) is Lisa Sandlin�s first mystery novel. Set in Beaumont, Texas, in 1973, it joins the growing subgenre of Gulf Coast Noir. Delpha Wade, returning to Beaumont after fourteen years in the women�s prison at Gatesville for killing one of the men who raped her on a dance-hall floor, needs a job as a condition of parole. Tom Phelan is a Vietnam veteran opening his practice as a private investigator. Wade has a business course certificate from Gatesville. Phelan needs a secretary and takes a chance on Wade. Together they ferret out unfaithful husbands, missing persons, industrial espionage, and a serial killer. The Do-Right is a satisfying and entertaining contribution to classic noir.To read the entire review click here. Thank you!
The quick-witted, determined Delpha Wade is a sympathetic character who uses improve skills and hard-won knowledge of human nature (�You can learn to lose curiosity�) gleaned on the inside to adjust to life on the outside. It is a pleasure to watch her slowly unfurling, like a time-lapse of a flower opening to the sun. �Delpha had promised herself patience. Get used to all the clear air around her, the streets stretching out, doors that open open open. Couldn�t come all at once. Come slow. She�d have to get used to wearing sky over her head.� Tom Phelan is a likeable guy learning to be a private investigator who turns out to be like a terrier with a bone when two and two don�t make four. �This case was dead as a crab in crude, but it wouldn�t stop skittering sideways.�
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