The Calling - Hardcover

Wolfe, Inger Ash

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0771088973 ISBN 13: 9780771088971

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Voted one of the Best Mystery Books of 2008 by Publisher's Weekly

This dazzling crime-fiction debut ― a dark, haunting, compassionate story of the hunt for a killer motivated by love ― will be the international publishing event of the season.

This brilliant debut mystery has it all: characters so realistic they rise off the page; a devious plot that delivers both psychological depth and emotional heights; exceptionally fine, deft writing; a stunning cross-Canada manhunt; a detective like no other; and the promise of more mysteries in the series.

The first homicide that Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef, acting chief of the Port Dundas police, has had to investigate in almost three years is that of cancer patient Delia Chandler, a woman who once had an affair with Hazel’s father. When a few days later, and three hundred kilometres away, the mutilated body of an MS sufferer is found, painted in Chandler’s blood, Micallef realizes that someone is killing the terminally ill, and not for mercy’s sake. Hobbled by a bad back and a skeptical police bureaucracy, Inspector Micallef takes it upon herself to coordinate a nationwide manhunt for the killer; a man, she soon learns, who can save a life as dramatically as he can end one ― a man with God on his mind, grief in his heart, and a desperate need to kill.

This thrilling psychological tale stands alongside the best contributions to the genre by Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell), Minette Walters, and Patricia Highsmith.

The Calling is being published simultaneously in the U.S. by Harcourt and in the U.K. by Transworld.

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Review:

A superbly written novel with a brilliantly conceived and realized plot...unforgettable. -- Globe & Mail, Canada

A wonderful, creepy, twisty novel. You'll want to devour it all in one sitting -- PETER ROBINSON

So impressive I couldn't put the damned thing down... genuine surprises, twists and turns that will keep you turning pages quickly and too late into the night. -- LA Times

That rare unplug-the-phone, skip-all-meals, ignore-your-bedtime thriller. It's twisty, sharp and very, very creepy--and Det. Hazel Micallef is a perfectly original charmer
-- Gillian Flynn, author of Sharp Objects

The most enthralling, creepiest, grizzliest book I've read in years. -- CHELSEA CAIN, author of Heartsick

Unforgettable.
-- Globe & Mail, Canada

You're in the hands of a master storyteller. The Calling is a stunner - dark, surprising and utterly compelling

-- MO HAYDER

From the Publisher:

Perfect for fans of Thomas Harris, Karin Slaughter or even Fargo, this is a thrilling, chilling, sinister crime novel with an all-too believable, dark villain at its core.

The killer truly is the stuff of nightmares and yet, cleverly, the gruesome and the terrifying give way to some really fun characterisation. What Inger Ash Wolfe achieves to great effect is the perfect balance of light and dark excitement. The Calling is a race against the clock, beautifully written and thoroughly absorbing from beginning to end.

It is also the first in a series featuring the very real Hazel Micallef, and readers will want to meet her again!

About this edition

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0771088973
• ISBN 13: 9780771088971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 391