02102cam a2200397 i 4500 553653890 TxGeo 20220408120000.0 211101s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021051058 9781250804273 hbk. 1250804272 hbk. (OCoLC)1281787552 TxGeo rda Allen, Samantha Jayne. Pay dirt road / Samantha Jayne Allen. First edition. New York, NY : Minotaur Books, 2022. 298 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Annie McIntyre ; 1 "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. 20230522. Missing persons Fiction. Private investigators Fiction. Homecoming Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Texas Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Annie McIntyre ; 1. QS5