Kankakee Public Library Podcasts

Julia Keller is the author of A Killing in the Hills, a crime novel published in 2012 by Minotaur. It is the first in a series about prosecuting attorney Belfa "Bell" Elkins, a headstrong but highly effective crusader against the illegal prescription drug trade thriving in rural America. A Killing in the Hills is set in the fictional town of Acker's Gap, West Virginia, seat of Raythune County, a "shabby afterthought" of a town, according to the novel. She won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her account of the deadly April 2004 Utica, Illinois tornado outbreak, which was published in the Chicago Tribune.