Book
Pay dirt road / Samantha Jayne Allen.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250804273 :
- ISBN: 1250804272 :
- Physical Description: 298 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Minotaur Books, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| Awards Note: | Winner of the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize for Best First Mystery Set in the Southwest. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Private investigators > Fiction. Murder > Investigation > Fiction. Texas > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Town of Orford Libraries.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orford Social Library | FIC ALL | 34190000119528 | New items | Available | - |
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"--
