October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romance—discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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Also by Samantha Jayne Allen:

Next of Kin, May 2024
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Hard Rain, March 2024
Trade Paperback
Hard Rain, April 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Pay Dirt Road, April 2022
Hardcover / e-Book

PAY DIRT ROAD
By: Samantha Jayne Allen

Annie McIntyre Mysteries #1
Minotaur Books
April 2022
On Sale: April 19, 2022
Featuring: Annie McIntyre
304 pages
ISBN: 1250804272
EAN: 9781250804273
Kindle: B092T7XVMF
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery Private Eye

Friday Night Lights meets Sue Grafton 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.