Pay dirt road / Samantha Jayne Allen.
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TextEdition: First editionDescription: 298 pages ; 25 cmISBN: 9781250804273; 1250804272; 9781250882929; 1250882923Subject(s): Women private investigators -- Fiction | Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction | FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth | FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators | FICTION / Small Town & Rural | Texas -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction | NovelsDDC classification: 813/.6 LOC classification: PS3601.L4355 | P39 2022Awards: Winner of the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize for Best First Mystery Set in the Southwest.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 caf�e 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"--
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"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 caf�e 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"--
Winner of the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize for Best First Mystery Set in the Southwest.
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