Booklist
A talented author to watch.
Peter Robinson
A wonderful, creepy and suspenseful novel with enough twists and compelling characters to make you want to devour it all at one sitting.
Kate Atkinson
Wolfe had me from the first page and never let me go. I absolutely loved Hazel Micallef.
Gillian Flynn
A 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.
Library Journal - Audio
A local man’s death is pegged as anaphylaxis from an insect bite until Canadian detective inspector Hazel Micallef’s sleuthing proves it was a homicide. The murder investigation leads her team to a sex-trafficking business that places her officers in grave danger. This third Hazel Micallef mystery, featuring the testy, 60ish detective with a tendency to bend rules, continues a story line that began in The Calling. It was accompanied by the announcement that Inger Ash Wolfe is actually a pseudonym for award-winning novelist Michael Redhill (Consolation). Narrator Bernadette Dunne inhabits each character and their moods with an actor’s finesse.
Verdict Mystery and police procedural fans will be gripped by Wolfe’s unpredictable and somewhat grueling plot, as unable to foresee its conclusion as Detective Micallef herself. [“For fans and new readers, this is another solid series entry. New readers should start with the earlier books,” read the review of the Pegasus Crime hc, LJ 9/15/12.—Ed.]—Judith Robinson, Univ. at Buffalo
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