Independent Book Store Day Special Event | Samantha Jayne Allen - Pay Dirt Road Book Launch Party
“Friday Night Lights” meets ”Mare of Easttown” in this small-town mystery about an unlikely private investigator searching for a missing waitress.
A Cappella Books is thrilled to welcome 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize recipient and our beloved former colleague, Samantha Jayne Allen, to celebrate the release of her mesmerizing debut novel, “Pay Dirt Road” on Independent Book Store Day.
This event is free and open to the public, and we’ll have refreshments on our back patio. Copies of "Pay Dirt Road" will be available for purchase.
Masks are required inside the store.
If you are unable to attend the event, you may pre-order a signed copy of the book below.
About the Book
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.
About the Author
Samantha Jayne Allen has an MFA in fiction from Texas State University. 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 in Atlanta. ”Pay Dirt Road” is her debut novel.
