Hard Rain

Annie McIntyre Mysteries, Book 2

From the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of Pay Dirt Road comes Samantha Jayne Allen's mesmerizing new 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.

©2023 Samantha Jayne Allen (P)2023 Recorded Books

Author knows her setting

I live in the area that was fictionalized in this book series, and have to say how much I enjoy when a writer gets the setting so right. Great narrator. Story kept me guessing!

The narrator was excellent

The story was good, but I felt the author was '"pushing " a certain agenda. Evangelical Christians are fake, selfish and judgemental especially in relation to environment and queers (story term... not mine).