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It’s 1964, and Eliza Kratke is mostly content. Married thirty years, she is long settled in Bayard, Texas with two grown children, a nice house, a little dog, and a routine. But her husband has a secret, and Eliza has not been brave enough to demand to know what it is.

1959. Delpha Wade killed a man who was raping her. Wanted to kill the other one, too, but he got away. Now, after 14 years in prison, she's out. It's 1973, and nobody's rushing to hire a parolee. Persistence and smarts land her a secretarial job with Tom Phelan, an ex-roughneck turned neophyte private eye. Together, these two pry into the dark corners of Beaumont, a blue-collar, Cajun-influenced town dominated by Big Oil.

Années 70 dans le Sud des Etats-Unis. Une femme sort de prison. Elle devra reconstruire sa vie. Et mener à bien sa vengeance.

1973, une petite ville du Texas. Personne n'attend Delpha Wade quand elle revient après quatorze années derrière les barreaux pour avoir réglé son compte à l'un de ses deux violeurs. Delpha doit pourtant trouver un travail et tenter de se refaire une vie, " faire le plus possible semblant d'être calme et décontractée ", comme l'en avise son conseiller d'insertion. Alors Delpha décide de jouer la comédie à fond.

The new novel from award-winning author Lisa Sandlin catches up with the almost-murdered secretary Delpha Wade (The Do-Right, 2015, set in 1973) as she's released from a hospital in order to be tucked into the back seat of a police cruiser. Her boss, PI Tom Phelan, sets out to spring her. He needs her back in his investigation business, where he'll soon be chasing a skulking grand larcenist and plotting how to keep a ganjapreneur out of the grabby hands of a brand new agency, the DEA.