Pay Dirt Road - Samantha Jayne Allen
Faced with no job prospects and no money for grad school, Annie returns to her hometown in hardscrabble Texas where she waits tables at the town diner. When a fellow waitress goes missing and is found dead, Annie gets caught up in an investigation.
It took a while to get into the pursuit of the mystery, but the beginning (and throughout) was a good character study of small town Texas. Extremely atmospheric, I could see the spray painted stop signs, the trash in the alleys, the weeds growing up through the concrete.
The entire book is very descriptive…the sights, the smells….while the case is slow to unfold. If you want to savor these, it is not a fast read. There really are two stories here. The primary seems to be more Annie’s family and her background history in her small town, with the murder almost secondary.
Thanks to Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for the DRC
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