BAD AXE COUNTY by John Galligan
Atria Hardcover | ISBN: 9781982110703 | On sale: July 9, 2019 | 336 pages | $26.00
Atria eBook | ISBN: 9781982110727| On sale: July 9, 2019 | 336 pages | $13.99
About BAD AXE COUNTY:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“If Joseph Conrad had really wanted to find the heart of darkness, he’d have looked in Bad Axe
County. Lurking in the isolated coulees at the edge of the Mississippi River are some of the
meanest, foulest, cruelest hearts imaginable, and John Galligan evokes them with all the
intensity of a mad poet. But in county sheriff Heidi Kick, a woman chipped and broken on
every edge, Galligan offers a righteous force in opposition. Set in a landscape of the salvage
yards, two-bit taverns, and blink-and-you’ll miss-’em small towns of Wisconsin’s Driftless
Area, Bad Axe County is a dark beauty of a novel, nothing less than a mythic conflict between
flawed heroes and gargantuan evil. It’s not always an easy battle to watch, but I guarantee
you won’t be able to look away.”
County. Lurking in the isolated coulees at the edge of the Mississippi River are some of the
meanest, foulest, cruelest hearts imaginable, and John Galligan evokes them with all the
intensity of a mad poet. But in county sheriff Heidi Kick, a woman chipped and broken on
every edge, Galligan offers a righteous force in opposition. Set in a landscape of the salvage
yards, two-bit taverns, and blink-and-you’ll miss-’em small towns of Wisconsin’s Driftless
Area, Bad Axe County is a dark beauty of a novel, nothing less than a mythic conflict between
flawed heroes and gargantuan evil. It’s not always an easy battle to watch, but I guarantee
you won’t be able to look away.”
—William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author of Desolation Mountain
and Ordinary Grace
and Ordinary Grace
"Fast-paced and utterly addictive. I loved Heidi kick, the Dairy-Queen-turned-sheriff.
Long may she reign."
Long may she reign."
—Lori Rader-Day, Edgar-Award-nominated author of Under a Dark Sky
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| Ya-Ling Tsai |
JOHN GALLIGAN is the author of the novels Red Sky, Red Dragonfly, The Nail Knot,
The Clinch Knot, The Wind Knot, and Bad Axe County. He lives and teaches writing in
Madison, Wisconsin.
The Clinch Knot, The Wind Knot, and Bad Axe County. He lives and teaches writing in
Madison, Wisconsin.
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