Bad Axe County: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

Kirkus Reviews Ideal Fiction Books of 2019

Dennis Lehane matches Megan Miranda in this tense, atmospheric thriller about the first female sheriff in rural Poor Axe Region, Wisconsin, as she searches for a missing young lady, battles local medication dealers, and seeks the reality about the death of her parents two decades ago—all as a winter storm rages in her embattled community.

Fifteen years back, Heidi White’s parents were shot to death on the Bad Axe State farm. The authorities declared it a murder- about Poor Axe State: A Book suicide and shut the situation. But that night, Heidi found the main one clue she knew may lead to the truth—only if the investigators would pay attention.

Now Heidi White colored is Heidi Kick, wife of community baseball story Harley Kick and mother of three small children. She’s also the interim sheriff in Poor Axe. Fifty percent the county desires Heidi elected but the other half will do anything to maintain her out of police. And as a lethal ice storm makes it way to Bad Axe, tensions rise and long-buried secrets climb to the surface.

As freezing rain washes out highways and rivers flood their banks, Heidi finds herself over the trail of a missing teenaged girl. Clues business lead her down twisted pathways to backwoods stag parties, derelict dairy products farms, and the local salvage backyard—where in fact the body of the different teenage young lady has been carefully hidden for a decade.

As the storm rages on, Heidi realizes that someone is planting clues on her behalf to get, leading her to some unpleasant truths that time to the neighborhood baseball team and a legendary game her husband pitched years back. Using a murder to solve, a missing lady to save lots of, and a monster to create to justice, Heidi can be around the cusp of shaking her community to its primary—and learning what really occurred the night her parents died.