Pay Dirt Road: A Novel
A deep sense of place; the human condition and characters we can all relate to make up our favorite aspects of a mystery/thriller. Samantha Jayne Allen’s Pay Dirt Road hits all the right notes. And then, the best part of her book is getting to the heart of the true mystery: Can anyone ever really go home again? Read for more — and answers, too.
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 s...


