Binding: Hardcover
Description: Friday Night Lights meets Mare of Easttown in this small - town mystery about an unlikely private investigator searching for a missing waitress. Pay Dirt Road is the mesmerizing debut from the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize recipient Samantha Jayne Allen. Annie Mc Intyre has a love/hate relationship with Garnett Texas. Recently graduated from college and home waitressing lacking not in ambition but certainly in direction Annie is lured into the family business a private investigation firm by her supposed - to - be - retired grandfather Leroy despite the rest of the clan's misgivings. When a waitress at the caf goes missing Annie and Leroy begin an investigation that leads them down rural routes and haunted byways to noxious - smelling oil fields and to the glowing neon of local honky - tonks. As Annie works to uncover the truth she finds herself identifying with the victim in increasing unsettling ways and realizes she must confront her own past failed romances a disturbing experience she d rather forget and the trick mirror of nostalgia itself if she wants to survive this homecoming.
Title: Pay Dirt Road A Novel
Author(s): Allen Samantha Jayne
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250804273
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 4/19/2022
Category: Crime & Mystery