| Description |
298 pages ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
"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 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 café 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Awards |
Winner of the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize for Best First Mystery Set in the Southwest. |
| Subject |
Private investigators -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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Texas -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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Mystery fiction.
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Novels.
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| ISBN |
9781250804273 (hardcover) |
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