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Summary
A Canadian police detective investigates a death by unnatural causes in this "bracingly original mystery series" from a "first-rate crime writer" ( Publishers Weekly ).
Stinging deaths aren't uncommon in the summertime, but when Henry Wiest turns up stung to death at an Indian reservation, Detective Hazel Micallef senses not all is as it seems. And when it turns out the "bee" was a diabolical teenaged girl on a murder spree with a strange weapon, a dark and twisted crime begins to slowly emerge. The questions, contradictions, and bodies begin to mount, as two separate police forces struggle to work together to save the soul of Westmuir County.
A seasoned law-enforcement veteran juggling tough cases and the care of her grumpy elderly mother, Hazel Micallef has been called "a perfectly original charmer" by Gillian Flynn, while Kate Atkinson says "Wolfe had me from the first page . . . I absolutely loved Hazel Micallef."
Author Notes
Inger Ash Wolfe is the pseudonym for the American-born Canadian novelist Michael Redhill. He is also the author of The Calling and The Taken.
Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
In the pseudonymous Wolfe's lethargic third Hazel Micallef mystery (after 2010's The Taken), Hazel, a police detective in Port Dundas, Ont., looks into the death of hardware store owner Henry Wiest, found in the parking lot of a smoke shop on the Queesik Bay reserve, home of the Five Nations. At first, it appears Henry died as the result of anaphylactic shock by a wasp sting, but Hazel wonders why Wiest, a nonsmoker, was parked in the smoke shop's lot. The uncooperative Queesik Bay Police Service increases Hazel's misgivings, especially after she learns that Henry's death wasn't so natural and her team notices strange comings and goings at the Five Nations Casino. A casino/bordello hidden deep in the Canadian woods and a teenage girl bent on revenge against those she believes forced her into prostitution provide a much needed boost, but can't completely elevate the slow plot. Agent: Ellen Levine, Trident Literary. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
The apparently accidental death of an inoffensive man everyone in Kehoe Glenn loved begins Ontario DI Hazel Micallef's latest odyssey of crime. The coroner's report shows that hardware store owner Henry Wiest died of anaphylactic shock after being stung by a wasp in the parking lot of the Eagle Smoke and Souvenir shop. But why had Henry, a nonsmoker, parked there in the first place, and what was a wasp doing up at 11:00 p.m.? Perennially prickly Hazel (The Taken, 2010, etc.) isn't satisfied with the official explanation, and she doesn't care who knows it. In short order, the acting commanding officer of the Port Dundas Police Department has gone head-to-head with pathologist Calvin Brett, Cmdr. Ileanna LeJeune of the Queesik Bay Police Service and Superintendent Ray Greene, her former deputy and future boss. Between the colleagues who are determined to shut down her investigation or wrestle it away from her and her thankless attempts to get her even more irascible mother, Emily, proper medical care, Hazel is stretched so thin that DC James Wingate, packed off on a week's enforced vacation, returns after two days and insists on working the case. And it's a good thing he does, because Henry's death is only the tip of the iceberg. Shortly after, his wife, Cathy, is attacked by the same person who killed Henry and who is on the way to wreak summary vengeance on a Gilchrist schoolteacher. A house painter who sometimes worked for Henry will follow him to the grave. And Wingate, gone undercover in a tribal casino on LeJeune's territory, will follow a trail that will lead him directly to a door to hell. Darkens steadily from its deceptively quiet opening to its wild and woolly climax. But it's only the shocking epilogue that reveals Wolfe's true subject as the murder of innocence.]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Canadian police detective Hazel Micallef may be in her sixties, but she has the drive and energy of coppers half her age. In this third in the series, the death of hardware-store-owner Henry Wiest has Micallef wondering what's become of the once sleepy Ontario enclave she calls home. When, mere days later, Wiest's widow is attacked, Micallef can no longer deny that something sinister is afoot. Clues lead the detective and her team to an underground casino on the local Indian reservation, which, on the surface, seems like a typical betting establishment. But the gambling here is done with human lives. Was Henry Wiest engaged in illicit activities or just trying to help victimized young women escape their fate? The answers could lie with a young prostitute named Larysa, whose self-preservation instincts may have cost Wiest his life. Meanwhile, Micallef must contend with her cantankerous 87-year-old mother, whose health is failing. Pseudonymous novelist Wolfe serves up plenty of action and a likable protagonist in sexagenarian Micallef, who is equal parts cleverness, gumption, and grace.--Block, Allison Copyright 2010 Booklist
Library Journal Review
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 (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
