Annie McIntyre

Created by Samantha Jayne Allen

“Life is long. Hard to see a shape or any kind of arc while you’re living it.”
–Next of Kin

 A newly minted college grad finds herself back in her small hardscrabble hometown of Garnett, Texas,  ANNIE McINTYRE is tired of waitressing and a life seemingly going nowhere (career opportunities not exactly knocking in Garnett). Fearful of it all slipping away, she reluctantly joins the family business–a detective agency. Mostly at the urging of her retired-sheriff-turned-P.I. grandfather, Leroy.

The rest of the family’s not so sure.

The series follows the brooding rookie gumshoe as she learns the ropes. Surprise, surprise! it turns out she has a knack for the work. Meanwhile, the author nails the grit and dark secrets of small town Texas life: the dirt backroads, the oil fields, the shot-and-a-beer dives and the fly-specked backrooms–the places where everybody knows everybody, and last night’s secrets are tomorrow morning’s diner gossip. And Annie is fascinating to follow; a young detective who feels (and thinks) too much, but might–just might–have carved out some sort of life.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Samantha Jayne Allen is the author of the Annie McIntyre Mysteries. Her debut novel, Pay Dirt Road, won both the 2022 Dashiell Hammett Award for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing and the Tony Hillerman Prize for Best First Mystery Set in the Southwest. She has an MFA in fiction from Texas State University, and her short fiction 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.

NOVELS

• Pay Dirt Road (2022) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Hard Rain (2023) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Next of Kin (2024) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!

FURTHER INVESTIGATION

• Lone Star Eyes
  The Eyes of Texas are Upon You

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.