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 on her days off, helping other women deal with their own abusive husbands & boyfriends, that she barely 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. Shince Stella works outside of the law, she's free to do whatever it takes to get the job done, 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 an easy case. Until Roy Dean disappears w/Chrissy's 2-yr-old son, Tucker. Stella quickly learns that Roy Dean was involved w/some very scary men, as she tries to sort out who's hiding information and who's merely trying to kill her. It's going to take a hell of a fight to get the little boy back home to his mama, but if anyone can do it, it's Stella Hardesty.
I think I picked this book up at a local sale and I really liked it. I found the 2nd in the series at the local library, so I'm going to see if they want this one and maybe I can talk them into ordering the 3rd one that's just come out.
Reading Level: Adult
Recommended: bought @ local library sale
Series: Stella Hardesty series
Awards: Winner of the Anthony Award & nominated for 6 best first novel awards, including the Edgar.
Author Website: Sophie Littlefield
Rating: 4
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