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Next of Kin

#3 in series

by Samantha Jayne Allen
Sandy Rustin
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At a gathering for her cousin's wedding party, newly licensed PI Annie McIntyre gets asked an age-old question: What really makes us who we are, nature or nurture? Clint Marshall, an up-and-coming musician and an adoptee at a personal crossroads, wants to hire Annie to find his biological parents, and that question has been on his mind. Annie accepts his case, not knowing then that she, too, must decide if she really believes what she tells him that night—in essence, that people are in charge of their destinies. That people can change.
When Annie discovers her client's father is a bank robber whom her granddad, Leroy, arrested back when he was sheriff, reverberations sound between the past and the present, igniting old flames and rivalries. And when a family member of her client dies suddenly, the death ruled a suicide, Annie questions whether or not it was, in fact, homicide—and who in this family of outlaws would rather some secrets stay buried.
As Annie sets out to find the killer—and stays out of sight lest she be next—she finds herself searching abandoned, overgrown fields, scouring pool halls and roadside motels, wondering if she will ever escape the sense that her world in Garnett, Texas, expands and contracts in off-kilter ways, growing smaller and yet still more confounding. Fearing that in a place where everyone knows everyone, your enemy is always closer than you think.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Annie McIntyre Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    April 23, 2024

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9798891785601
      • File size: 290919 KB
      • Duration: 10:06:04

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 19, 2024
      Annie McIntyre deals with bloodshed and blood relations in Allen’s atmospheric third whodunit featuring the 26-year-old PI (after Hard Rain). It’s a sweltering August in the small town of Garnett, Tex., and Annie has her plate full as maid of honor for her cousin Nikki’s wedding. During one of the prenuptial parties, she’s approached by local musician Clint Marshall, the groom’s brother and best man. Adopted as a baby, he wants Annie to help him find his birth parents. The case seems straightforward enough: Annie uses Ancestry.com to locate Clint’s biological brother, Cody, and his father, who’s serving time in prison for a years-old bank robbery. Things take a turn, however, when Cody is found dead and Clint disappears. With the aid of her 85-year-old grandfather, Leroy, a former county sheriff, and his former deputy, Mary-Pat Zimmerman, Annie searches West Texas’s bars and motels in search of answers. Eventually, she turns her focus to Clint’s jailbird father. Allen conjures a suitably noirish mood from the opening pages, and renders even her secondary characters in three dimensions. With regional intrigue and plenty of satisfying sleuthing, this series merits a long run.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Sandy Rustin's voice is just right for youthful PI Annie McIntyre as she deals with discovery after shocking discovery in a dusty Texas town. In Garnett everyone knows everyone--and their secrets. After a conversation with friends about nature or nurture, Annie is approached by Clint Marshall, an adoptee, who asks her to identify his biological parents. Using Ancestry.com and Clint's recent DNA test, Annie uncovers twisted family connections in the town. With her understated Texas twang, Rustin delivers a tense mystery filled with credible characters ranging from Clint's biological brother, to his father, who is in prison for armed robbery, and to Cody's taciturn mother. Rustin ratchets up the excitement as skeletons in the family closet reveal drugs, murder, and half-truths. Top-notch listening. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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