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

  • 001 BadAxeCounty Open

    Duration: 38s
  • 002 BadAxeCounty Prologue WhistlingStraitsGolfCourseTheAmericanClubKohlerWI

    Duration: 13min
  • 003 BadAxeCounty Part1Nightfall April2016 Chapter1

    Duration: 09min
  • 004 BadAxeCounty Chapter2

    Duration: 06min
  • 005 BadAxeCounty Chapter3

    Duration: 11min
  • 006 BadAxeCounty Chapter4

    Duration: 06min
  • 007 BadAxeCounty Chapter5

    Duration: 07min
  • 008 BadAxeCounty Chapter6

    Duration: 07min
  • 009 BadAxeCounty Chapter7

    Duration: 04min
  • 010 BadAxeCounty Chapter8

    Duration: 09min
  • 011 BadAxeCounty Chapter9

    Duration: 09min
  • 012 BadAxeCounty Chapter10

    Duration: 04min
  • 013 BadAxeCounty Chapter11

    Duration: 06min
  • 014 BadAxeCounty Chapter12

    Duration: 21min
  • 015 BadAxeCounty Chapter13

    Duration: 05min
  • 016 BadAxeCounty Chapter14

    Duration: 05min
  • 017 BadAxeCounty Chapter15

    Duration: 03min
  • 018 BadAxeCounty Chapter16

    Duration: 15min
  • 019 BadAxeCounty Chapter17

    Duration: 08min
  • 020 BadAxeCounty Chapter18

    Duration: 18min
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