The Taken: A Hazel Micallef Mystery

Synopsis

&“Lovers of twisty but plausible plotting and an out-of-the-ordinary lead will embrace [this] standout&” police procedural featuring a Canadian detective (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef is having a bad year. After major back surgery, she has no real option but to move into her ex-husband&’s basement and suffer the humiliation of his new wife bringing her meals down on a tray. As if that weren&’t enough, Hazel&’s octogenarian mother secretly flushes Hazel&’s stash of painkillers down the toilet. It&’s almost a relief when Hazel gets a call about a body fished up by tourists in one of the lakes near Port Dundas. But what raises the hair on the back of Micallef&’s neck is that the local paper has just published the first installment of a serialized story featuring such a scenario. Even before they head out to the lake with divers to recover the body, she and DC James Wingate, leading the police detachment in Micallef &’s absence, know they are being played. But it&’s not clear who is pulling their strings and why, nor is what they find at the lake at all what they expected. It&’s Micallef herself who is snared, caught up in a cryptic game devised by someone who knows how to taunt her into opening a cold case, someone who knows that nothing will stop her investigation. The second novel featuring Hazel Micallef, &“a compelling, unlikely hero,&” is a stunning and suspenseful exploration of the obsessive far reaches of love, confirming Inger Ash Wolfe as one of the best mystery writers today (Entertainment Weekly).

Copyright:

2009

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

432 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780547487243

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Date of Addition:

12/17/24

Copyrighted By:

Inger Ash Wolfe

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.