A Bad Day for Sorry A Crime Novel [Paperback]

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, she's so busy delivering home-style justice, helping other women deal with their own abusive husbands and boyfriends, that she's barely got time to run her sewing shop. Since Stella works outside of the law, she's free to do whatever it takes to be convincingas 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 Chrissy's two-year-old son is taken, and Stella finds herself up against a much more formidable enemy.

Sophie Littlefield'sA Bad Day for Sorrywon 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 year's best mystery debuts by theChicago Sun-TimesandSouth Florida Sun-Sentinel.

Sophie Littlefieldgrew up in rural Missouri. Her first novel,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. The second in the series,A Bad Day for Pretty, was named a New York Times Notable Book. Sophie lives near San Francisco, California.

Crime fiction hasn't seen a character as scrappy, mean, and incredibly appealing as Stella in a long time. Entertainment Weekly

An abundance of violence is leavened with humor and heart in this debut novel in what I hope is the start of a new series. Hallie Ephron, Boston Globe

Markedly original&The story's compelling, the dialogue perfect--and Stella is one of the most memorable characters of this summer or any other. Richmond Times-DispalC9