02227cam a2200349 i 4500 554554035 TxAuBib 20220419120000.0 211101s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021051058 9781250804273 hardcover 1250804272 hardcover TxAuBib rda Allen, Samantha Jayne,. Pay dirt road / Samantha Jayne Allen. First edition. New York : Minotaur Books, 2022. ©2022. 296 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Annie McIntyre ; 1 "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. 20220419. Winner of the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize for Best First Mystery Set in the Southwest. Private investigators Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Texas Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Annie McIntyre ; 1.