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    Bad Axe County: A Novel
    Bad Axe County: A Novel
    Bad Axe County: A Novel
    Audiobook10 hours

    Bad Axe County: A Novel

    Written by John Galligan

    Narrated by Samantha Desz

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    About this audiobook

    Dennis Lehane meets Megan Miranda in this “dark beauty of a novel” (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author) about the first female sheriff in rural Bad Axe County, Wisconsin, as she searches for a missing girl, battles local drug dealers, and seeks the truth about the death of her parents twenty years ago—all as a winter storm rages in her embattled community.

    Fifteen years ago, Heidi White’s parents were shot to death on their Bad Axe County farm. The police declared it a murder-suicide and closed the case. But that night, Heidi found the one clue she knew could lead to the truth—if only the investigators would listen.

    Now Heidi White is Heidi Kick, wife of local baseball legend Harley Kick and mother of three small children. She’s also the interim sheriff in Bad Axe. Half the county wants Heidi elected but the other half will do anything to keep her out of law enforcement. And as a deadly ice storm makes it way to Bad Axe, tensions rise and long-buried secrets climb to the surface.

    As freezing rain washes out roads and rivers flood their banks, Heidi finds herself on the trail of a missing teenaged girl. Clues lead her down twisted paths to backwoods stag parties, derelict dairy farms, and the local salvage yard—where the body of a different teenage girl has been carefully hidden for a decade.

    As the storm rages on, Heidi realizes that someone is planting clues for her to find, leading her to some unpleasant truths that point to the local baseball team and a legendary game her husband pitched years ago. With a murder to solve, a missing girl to save, and a monster to bring to justice, Heidi is on the cusp of shaking her community to its core—and finding out what really happened the night her parents died.

    With “striking prose, engaging characters, and a searing story of crimes rooted in the heartland,” Bad Axe County is a “darkly irresistible thriller” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) that you won’t be able to put down.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJul 9, 2019
    ISBN9781508294245
    Author

    John Galligan

    John Galligan is the author of four Bad Axe County novels including, Bad Axe County, Dead Man Dancing, and Bad Moon Rising. He is also the author of the Fly Fishing Mystery series, The Nail Knot, The Blood Knot, The Clinch Knot, The Wind Knot, and the novel Red Sky, Red Dragonfly. He lives and teaches college writing in Madison, Wisconsin.  

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    • 4/5
      Bad Axe County- nothing like I thought it was going to be from listening to a sample, but pretty good nonetheless. Well written, very very dark and depressing on so many levels. Narrator was good, easy to listen to, a good choice for this novel. I thought the book went on for a little too long, and towards the end I got a little antsy waiting for it to get to the end. Also, a little confusing as, very late in the story, the author seems to be introducing new characters into the mix. This kind of added to my frustration in wanting to just get to the end!

      I will give kudos to the author for creating a number of very strong female characters; in fact, now that I think about it, the majority of the woman characters came off as intelligent and very capable, while most of the men were portrayed as dumb, cold hearted, disgusting boobs. Huh! Especially interesting as the author is a man.....

      Anyway, if you like well written but dark and depressing mystery novels, you will most likely enjoy this book. I enjoyed it for the most part, and am glad to have given it a listen.