And She's a Bad Axe Herself

Heidi is the interim sheriff in hardscrabble Bad Axe County, where locals know the way and ways of the terrain and folks. And tradition, as well as loyalties, run deep. A girl is missing, and as Heidi tries to solve that case, she finds overlapping references to her own trauma--the murder of her parents when she was a teenage "Dairy Queen", doing the rounds and representing. As both cases unravel, Heidi begins to uncover some secrets that seem impossible to face. I loved the heroines, and author John Galligan does a good job writing from a woman's perspective.