Ill Wind, Jean Heller
Ill Wind, Jean Heller
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Ill Wind

Author: Jean Heller

Narrator: Christine Lakin

Unabridged: 10 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/02/2023


Synopsis

Hard-hitting veteran reporter Deuce Mora is awakened in the predawn hours and called to the scene of a gruesome hanging to identify the body of a dear friend, an FBI agent on the verge of taking down one of Chicago’s biggest Mob operations. Deuce knows it’s murder, but the authorities have no choice but to call it a suicide—the scene was triple-locked from the inside.The ill wind sweeping the Windy City has also whipped up two more unexplainable deaths—of perfectly healthy, able-bodied young mobsters, key witnesses about to flip on the leaders of the Mob operation. Neither the Chicago police nor the FBI can come up with a cause of death, but our meticulous investigator fits together a couple of impossible puzzle pieces. The downside is that the mob figures out who their greatest threat is, and Deuce becomes their new target.Enter a Washington reporter who has been following the organized crime investigation for months at its source, in DC. He and Deuce share a dark secret and he knows exactly where to apply pressure on her demons to keep her on the trail of her friend’s murderers. But as the Windy City begins to look more and more like the Chicago of Al Capone days, with bodies turning up in the river and shootouts in public places, Deuce discovers she couldn’t walk away even if she wanted to. Whoever is at the top will stop at nothing to shut down this investigation.

About Jean Heller

Jean Heller is a writer and journalist, the author of five novels in the Deuce Mora detective series, and two stand-alone novels, Maximum Impact and Handyman. She is known for her investigative reporting, for which she earned a Robert F. Kennedy Award, a Polk Award, a Raymond F. Clapper Award, and eight Pulitzer nominations.

About Christine Lakin

Christine Lakin is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and acclaimed television actress, best known for her roles as Alicia “Al” Lambert on the hit family comedy Step by Step and as Joan of Arc on Showtime’s Reefer Madness.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Choko on September 25, 2015

This book was in keeping with the series so far. All of them are slow developing with a ton of descriptions of scenery, which is to be expected, since the different state parks are the niche of Anna Pigeon's character. I think I envoy them mostly due to the dry, antisocial personality with a tad of......more

Goodreads review by ~☆~Autumn on May 16, 2018

This is my 5th or 6th book by Nevada Barr and it turned out to be my favorite. It should have been obvious to me but I could not figure out who the "insect" was and so was surprised and also to learn what was really going on as I never guessed. Anna Pigeon has the first good romance in this one so I......more

Goodreads review by Linda on August 11, 2012

Wouldn't you just love to have a name like "Nevada" ? It's so unusual for a first name, I mean. If you live in Las Vegas or Henderson, it is not so unusual. As I am from Michigan, and before that Utah, and before that Oregon, and before that California I could never have pulled it off ! Michigan Day......more

Goodreads review by Judy on January 10, 2018

This was the third mystery by Nevada Barr, all set in United States National Parks. Ranger Anna Pigeon is now posted in Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park located amid the preserved cliff dwellings of the ancient Anasazi native civilization. Those ancestors of the Pueblo Indian vanished in the 12t......more


Quotes

“[Heller] crafts a tightly constructed mystery featuring a protagonist of tremendous empathy and a bent toward thoughtful introspection.” Publishers Weekly, praise for the series

“Good reporters do not always good novelists make, but Jean Heller is both.” Boston Sunday Globe, praise for the author

“Expertly paced…[with] a thrilling conclusion.” Kirkus Reviews on The Hunting Ground

“The Hunting Ground is a chilling and harrowing tale…Heller is one talented storyteller.” TRBookReviews