Hard Rain

<p><b>From the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of <i>Pay Dirt Road</i> comes <i>Hard Rain,</i> Samantha Jayne Allen''s mesmerizing next novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town dealing with disaster.<br><br></b>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>When Annie''s search turns up a different victim¿shot dead, not drowned¿Annie questions if the hero they seek is actually a killer.<br><br>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 con