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Lansdale is a mordantly funny chronicler of Lone Star misdeeds who knows how to keep a plot furiously turning.

That way, he can never be responsible for his own misdeeds.

The family’s lawsuit, filed in December in Los Angeles federal court, seeks damages for a list of alleged misdeeds, including denial of medical care, battery and negligence.

Liz Dawson, “Retreat’s” crafty con artist, switches identities to stay ahead of her misdeeds like a wolf covering its tracks.

Nevertheless, some of his more proximate misdeeds are effectively used to make clear that Mantel's antihero is, in the denouement of his life, fully alert to his sinful state.