Bad Axe County: A Novel

  • Author: John Galligan
  • Narrator: Samantha Desz
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 10:23:30
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Synopsis

Dennis Lehane meets Megan Miranda in this tense, atmospheric thriller 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.

Chapters

  • 061 BadAxeCounty Chapter59

    Duration: 09min
  • 062 BadAxeCounty Chapter60

    Duration: 11min
  • 063 BadAxeCounty Part3Daybreak Chapter61

    Duration: 03min
  • 064 BadAxeCounty Chapter62

    Duration: 09min
  • 065 BadAxeCounty Chapter63

    Duration: 04min
  • 066 BadAxeCounty Chapter64

    Duration: 02min
  • 067 BadAxeCounty Chapter65

    Duration: 05min
  • 068 BadAxeCounty Chapter66

    Duration: 05min
  • 069 BadAxeCounty Chapter67

    Duration: 04min
  • 070 BadAxeCounty Chapter68

    Duration: 09min
  • 071 BadAxeCounty Part4FiveDaysAfter Chapter69

    Duration: 11min
  • 072 BadAxeCounty Chapter70

    Duration: 04min
  • 073 BadAxeCounty Chapter71

    Duration: 03min
  • 074 BadAxeCounty Chapter72

    Duration: 12min
  • 075 BadAxeCounty Chapter73

    Duration: 03min
  • 076 BadAxeCounty Epilogue CrawfordCountyWisconsin

    Duration: 09min
  • 077 BadAxeCounty Close

    Duration: 48s
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