Hard Rain
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Samantha Jayne Allen. (2023). Hard Rain. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Samantha Jayne Allen. 2023. Hard Rain. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Samantha Jayne Allen, Hard Rain. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2023.

Samantha Jayne Allen. Hard Rain. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2023.

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   • bioText: 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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From the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of Pay Dirt Road comes Hard Rain, Samantha Jayne Allen's mesmerizing next novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town dealing with disaster.
In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters that have decimated the town of Garnett, Texas and killed a dozen others.
Six months after solving the murder of a local waitress, Annie McIntyre is working as an apprentice P.I. when she's handed her first solo case: uncover the identity of the man who rescued Bethany before he was swept downriver.
When Annie's search turns up a different victim—shot dead, not drowned—Annie questions if the hero they seek is actually a killer.
Flexing her new skills while relying on the wisdom of her eccentric, ex-cop grandfather, the case leads Annie into a web of drug dealers, preachers, and wayward drifters trying to make sense of life after a disaster. Annie's own convictions are put to the ultimate test as long-held secrets, corruption, and violence are exposed like the ruin that lies beneath receding waters.

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   • source: Publishers Weekly
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     "Taut, [with] pitch-perfect imagery...Mystery fans will hope to soon return."

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   • source: Library Journal
   • content: "Atmospheric."
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   • source: The Providence Journal
   • content: Praise for Pay Dirt Road:
     
     "Wondrous....Allen proves herself as adept as the likes of David Baldacci, Lisa Gardner, and Lisa Scottoline."
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   • source: The New York Times
   • content: "There's a wistful air wafting through Samantha Jayne Allen's debut... Allen writes with keen acumen, her sentences marked with quiet yet powerful grace notes."
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   • content: "Samantha Jayne Allen paints a detailed picture of small-town Texan life and invites readers along on a crime-solving adventure full of deepening family relationships and life lessons."
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   • source: The Augusta Chronicle
   • content: "If you liked the realist grit of Mare of Easttown, you'll savor this smart and layered tale from a new Georgia writer worth watching."
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   • source: Texas Monthly
   • content: "Allen's prose lights up like a neon beer sign....The Central Texas setting rings true, not just in its gratifying buffet of kolaches, H-E-B tortillas, and Texas sheet cake, but in the turreted McMansions whose smiling bluebonnet photos hide a host of sins."
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     November 1, 2022
     

     In Allen's LJ-starred, Tony Hillerman Prize--winning Pay Dirt Road, Annie McIntyre returned home to Garnett, TX, and was swept up in her family's private eye firm. Here, she's got her own case: find the savior who pulled a woman from the floodwaters that had engulfed the town before being swept away himself. Instead, she discovers a shooting victim and begins to wonder whether her Good Samaritan is actually a killer. With a 40,000-copy first printing.

     Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     February 6, 2023
     The violent effects and muddy waters of a flood that devastates Garnett, Tex., provide a richly suggestive backdrop for Allen’s taut sequel to 2022’s Pay Dirt Road, a Hillerman Prize winner. One flood survivor, Bethany Richter, asks apprentice PI Annie McIntyre, an old friend, to identity a stranger who briefly helped Bethany to safety. It’s a rather thin premise for a case, but Annie leaps at the chance to prove herself. Annie’s search leads her to uncover town secrets and scandals, including adultery, drug dealing, unethical real estate transactions, theft, and brutality. When someone is fatally shot, she has to wonder whether the killer could be the stranger she’s seeking. Meanwhile, in an unevenly developed subplot, Annie attempts to sustain a romance with her boyfriend. Keep a pencil handy for making notes on the cast, for there are nearly 20 in an intricately connected social web. Written with some pitch-perfect imagery and an acute awareness of Annie’s longing to make good in her hometown, this intense novel holds its secrets until the final harrowing pages. Regional mystery fans will hope to soon return to Garnett. Agent: Sharon Pelletier, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret.

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      March 1, 2023
      

      Garnett, TX, had been in a drought, so when 12 inches of rain come down in just hours, and the Geronimo River crests at a record 40 feet, the county floods, leaving damaged homes and dead people behind. Minister's wife Bethany Richter is caught in the flood but rescued by a man who is then swept away himself. She hires Annie McIntyre of McIntyre Investigations to find her unidentified rescuer, who reminded her of pictures of Christ. Annie's been training to be a PI for just six months, and she's still restless after returning to her hometown post-college. But her first solo assignment leaves her unsettled. While searching for Bethany's savior, she finds a body and truck submerged in the water. Her investigation soon leads her to drug dealers, problems within a local church and within her own family, and threats on her life. VERDICT The slow-paced, atmospheric sequel to the Tony Hillerman Award-winning Pay Dirt Road will appeal to fans of Marcie R. Rendon's Sinister Graves, in which another young female PI searches for answers after a flood.--Lesa Holstine

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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From the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of Pay Dirt Road comes Hard Rain, Samantha Jayne Allen's mesmerizing next novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town dealing with disaster.
In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters that have decimated the town of Garnett, Texas and killed a dozen others.
Six months after solving the murder of a local waitress, Annie McIntyre is working as an apprentice P.I. when she's handed her first solo case: uncover the identity of the man who rescued Bethany before he was swept downriver.
When Annie's search turns up a different victim—shot dead, not drowned—Annie questions if the hero they seek is actually a killer.
Flexing her new skills while relying on the wisdom of her eccentric, ex-cop grandfather, the case leads Annie into a web of drug dealers, preachers, and wayward drifters trying to make sense of life after a disaster. Annie's own...

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