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Winner of the Anthony Prize for Best First Novel! Stella Hardesty dispatched her abusive husband with a wrench soon before her 50th birthday. A couple of years later, she's so busy delivering home-style justice on her days off, supporting other women offer using their own abusive husbands and boyfriends, that she hardly has time to run her sewing shop in her rural Missouri hometown. Some men need more convincing than others, but it's usually nothing a little light bondage or old-fashioned whuppin' can't fix. Since Stella works outside of the law, she's absolve to do whatever needs doing to complete the job - so long as she keeps her distance from the good looking devil of a local sheriff, Goat Jones. When young mother Chrissy Shaw asks Stella for assist with her no-good husband, Roy Dean, it looks like an easy case. Until Roy Dean disappears with Chrissy's two-year-old child, Tucker. Stella quickly learns that Roy Dean was involved with some very intimidating men, as she tries to straighten out who's covering information and who's just trying to destroy her. It's going to take a hell of any deal with to get the little boy back to his mama, but if anyone can do it, it's Stella Hardesty. A Bad Day for Sorry earned an Anthony Prize for Best First Novel and an RT Reserve Prize for Best First Mystery. It was also shortlisted for Edgar, Barry, Crimespree, and Macavity Prizes, and it was called to lists of the year's best unknown debuts by the Chicago Sun-Times and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.