Audiobook8 hours
Pay Dirt Road
Written by Samantha Jayne Allen
Narrated by Sandy Rustin
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
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.
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.
Author
Samantha Jayne Allen
SAMANTHA JAYNE ALLEN is the author of the Annie McIntyre Mysteries. She has an MFA in fiction from Texas State University, and her writing has been published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, The Common, and Electric Literature. Raised in small towns in Texas and California, she now lives with her husband and daughter in Atlanta.
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Reviews for Pay Dirt Road
Rating: 3.4 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5"Lacking not in ambition, but certainly in direction" was written and sums up my feelings. I had the audiobook and would have liked a different narrator.
The story was juvenile with signs of one day being an adult book. Maybe this should be marked Teen or Young Adult.
The premise was interesting (I don't repeat the synopsis or give spoilers). I did love how the author put Annie on the right track to solving the mystery. Annie overheard officers talking and that prompted her to step back and rethink. She received good advice.
There is profanity.