Samantha Jayne Allen: Hard Rain
Annie McIntyre #2
While this book centers on Annie McIntyre, a young woman who has moved back home to Garnett, Texas, to work for her grandfather’s P.I. firm, it opens with a truly spectacular flood scene (the “Hard Rain” of the title). A woman named Bethany is spending the weekend with friends in a rental cabin when the flood sweeps her away, and she’s saved by a man who “looks like Jesus.” He saves her, and then is swept away himself. Fearing he’s dead, she hires her old high school buddy Annie to try and find out what happened to him.