Pay Dirt Road: A Novel (Annie McIntyre Mysteries)

Friday Night Lights<\/i> meets Mare of Easttown<\/i> in this small-town mystery about an unlikely private investigator searching for a missing waitress. Pay Dirt Road<\/i> is the mesmerizing debut from the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize recipient Samantha Jayne Allen.<\/b>

Annie McIntyre 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\u00e9 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.<\/p><\/P>"