Lisa Sandlin Books in Order

These stories follow imperfect people struggling with loneliness, pain, and the damage in their lives. Their attempts to find connection and healing reveal the uneasy possibilities of survival when emotional wounds continue to shape everyday experience.

Set among the daily lives of New Mexico residents, these stories explore unexpected encounters, religious devotion, and the presence of saints in ordinary experience. A Good Friday pilgrimage to Chimayo connects questions of chance, faith, and human connection.

After serving fourteen years for killing her rapist, Delpha Wade finds work with fledgling private investigator Tom Phelan in 1973 Beaumont, Texas. Routine cases and encounters with her past test her efforts to begin a different life.

Recovering from a violent encounter, Delpha Wade returns to Tom Phelan's Beaumont investigation business. A search involving two brothers with shifting identities draws them into a dangerous mystery, alongside other cases troubling their fledgling partnership.

Widowed at fifty-seven, Eliza discovers that her husband concealed a truth undermining their thirty years together. Business classes and life at the Sweet Vidalia hotel bring younger neighbors into her orbit as she attempts to rebuild her future.