A Bad Day for Sorry: A Crime Novel: 1 (Stella Hardesty Crime Novels 1)

Winner of the Anthony Award for Best First Novel!. Stella Hardesty dispatched her abusive husband with a wrench shortly before her fiftieth birthday. A few years later shes so busy delivering home-style justice helping other women deal with their own abusive husbands and boyfriends that shes barely got time to run her sewing shop. Since Stella works outside of the law shes free to do whatever it takes to be convincing―as long as she keeps her distance from the handsome devil of a local sheriff Goat Jones.. When young mother Chrissy Shaw asks Stella for help with her no-good husband Roy Dean it looks like just another standard job. But then Chrissys two-year-old son is taken and Stella finds herself up against a much more formidable enemy.. Sophie Littlefields A Bad Day for Sorry won an Anthony Award for Best First Novel and an RT Book Award for Best First Mystery. It was also shortlisted for Edgar Barry Crimespree and Macavity Awards and it was named to lists of the years best mystery debuts by the Chicago Sun-Times and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.