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Bad Axe County (2019)

di John Galligan

Serie: Bad Axe County (1)

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"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."--Provided by publisher.… (altro)
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PEARL RULE #001 @ 29%

Rating: 2.5* of five

The Publisher Says: 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.

I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA NETGALLEY. THANK YOU.

My Review
: Competently written, uninspiringly typical example of a man-designed and -aimed plot centering on a female law-enforcement officer discovering girls are being sexually exploited by a cabal of sociopathic rich men. This is subject matter that is not my personal choice for entertainment reading in 2024. The style is, as noted, competently executed but I recall not one sentence as a sentence.

There are four novels in the series, so I am the outlier in finding this not to my taste.
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  richardderus | Jan 27, 2024 |
This has been on my radar for a while so I was pleased to see it on NetGalley. This is an engrossing novel, with a strong female lead who is consumed by her parents' unsolved murder when she was a teenager. Part police procedural, part thriller, completely great story! Can't wait to read more in the series.

Thanks to Atria Books for access to a digital ARC on NetGalley. ( )
  Spencer28 | Jul 24, 2023 |
Bad Axe County. John Galligan. 2019. Galligan is a great writer, and because of this, the book was hard to read at times. He gives the most vivid description of meth users I have ever read. Well it was a tough read all the way around. The old sheriff has died, and Heidi Kick has been appointed acting sheriff as the townofficials try to unravel all the illegal and cruel things the former sheriff has done. His cronies want to stop her. She has to deal with them, child trafficking, assaults, murder, and enemies at every turn including threats against her family. And all of this in the middle of winter! This is a great book, but not for anyone with a weak stomach! ( )
  judithrs | Apr 26, 2023 |
Heidi Kick was once the reigning Dairy Queen of Wisconsin - until her parents where shot to death on their farm fifteen years ago. She refuses to accept the murder-suicide theory the police used to promptly close the case; she even has a clue that could lead to the truth.

Now Heidi is the wife of a local baseball legend, mother of three small kids, and the interim sheriff in Bad Axe County. While half the town wants Heidi elected to clean up the dirty dealings in the county, the other half are willing to do anything to be rid of her.

An ice storm is on the way and as law enforcement prepares, long-buried secrets are seeing the light for the first time. As Heidi tracks a missing teenaged girl in serious danger, clues lead her to discover a dark side of Bad Axe she’s never experienced that involve local baseball, a game her husband pitched years ago, and a murder.

I was surprised by how much I loved this book and am thrilled to see that it’s a series! The atmosphere of Bad Axe is gritty and Heidi is a likable and believable investigator that I rooted for as she uncovered layers of corruption in her town. I look forward to reading her next case!
Thanks to Atria Books and NetGalley for providing me with a copy in exchange for my honest review. Bad Axe County was originally released July 9, 2019. ( )
  KyraLeseberg | Dec 2, 2022 |
Acting Sheriff Heidi Kick, former Wisconsin beauty queen whose parents died violently during her reign, finds bad weather and a confluence of cases involving local big names quite a strain. While the landscape sounds interesting, it is populated by a confusingly similar rota of violent misogynistic truck driving jerks all of whom collect felonies while still circulating freely. And some of them are in law enforcement. If this is even slightly what WI is like now, I'm ever so glad my father was never sufficiently tempted to move back to his home state in the 1950s. ( )
  quondame | Oct 24, 2022 |
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"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."--Provided by publisher.

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