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A review by whimsicalyme
Pay Dirt Road by Samantha Jayne Allen
4.0
I just finished Pay Dirt Road by @samallenwrites and I need all my mystery & thriller lovers to read this book!! Set in a small Texas town and following the death of our MC’s friend Victoria. Victoria’s a single mother and waitress at the diner diner where Annie works.
Our MC Annie is a recent college graduate returned home to figure out what she’s doing with her life. Annie is drawn to investigate the case by her grandfather, a retired sheriff turned PI and alcoholic. As Annie investigates I appreciated her stops, starts and blunders. She grows as a person and investigator throughout the book and I enjoyed it!
There are plenty of red herrings but I found this novel engaging and atmospheric. The small Texas town is filled with the same societal issues we see everywhere including alcoholism, domestic violence/abuse of women, political and environmental issues. An oil company is drilling and buying up land, could the land Victoria inherited from her grandmother be the reason for her death?
Pay Dirt road isn’t a fast paced thriller, it is a slow build mystery that’s character driven and atmospheric, a solid start to a series! I can’t wait to see what Samatha Allen has in store for us next!
Pay Dirt Road goes on sale April 19! Thank you @minotaur_books for my advanced copy of the book to review.
Our MC Annie is a recent college graduate returned home to figure out what she’s doing with her life. Annie is drawn to investigate the case by her grandfather, a retired sheriff turned PI and alcoholic. As Annie investigates I appreciated her stops, starts and blunders. She grows as a person and investigator throughout the book and I enjoyed it!
There are plenty of red herrings but I found this novel engaging and atmospheric. The small Texas town is filled with the same societal issues we see everywhere including alcoholism, domestic violence/abuse of women, political and environmental issues. An oil company is drilling and buying up land, could the land Victoria inherited from her grandmother be the reason for her death?
Pay Dirt road isn’t a fast paced thriller, it is a slow build mystery that’s character driven and atmospheric, a solid start to a series! I can’t wait to see what Samatha Allen has in store for us next!
Pay Dirt Road goes on sale April 19! Thank you @minotaur_books for my advanced copy of the book to review.