Fresh Pick | A BAD DAY FOR SORRY by Sophie Littlefield

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A 2010 Macavity Award Nominee for Best First Mystery. The Macavity Award is named for the "mystery cat" of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats). Each year the members of Mystery Readers International nominate and vote for their favorite mysteries.   June 2010 On Sale: May 25, 2010 Featuring: Stella Hardesty; Goat Jones 288 pages ISBN: 0312643233 EAN: 9780312643232 Trade Size $13.99 Add to Wish List   Mystery Cozy, Mystery Woman Sleuth   Buy at Amazon.com A Bad Day For Sorry by Sophie Littlefield   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 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 Chrissy's two-year-old son is taken, and Stella finds herself up against a much more formidable enemy.     A Bad Day for Sorry" is Littlefield's critically acclaimed debut, kicking off a bold and original new crime series. It was an Edgar Finalist for Best First Novel and is shortlisted for an Anthony and a Macavity Award. It won an RT Book Award for Best First Mystery and has been named to lists of the year's best mystery debuts by the "Chicago Sun-Times "and "South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Excerpt Stella knew from experience that Roy Dean Shaw wasn't a particularly brave young buck. But then, the ones who smacked their women around rarely were. Hunting him down was going to consume a sizeable chunk of her day off, and Stella was plenty annoyed. She only took Sundays Read More... New Blogs, Updates and Not-to-Miss Activity in the "blogosphere" Kalayna Price | Can Death Be A Hero? October 16, 2010 Mary Wine | Name Your Poison...AKA...Favorite Drink Comment to win October 15, 2010 Blogging Soon: Fresh Fiction Give-a-ways! Jennifer Belle DiAnn Mills Terri Brisbin Liz Fichera Shana Galen Maggie Shayne Sharon Lathan

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