A female detective on the verge of retirement must track a gruesome serial killer across Canada in this "bracingly original mystery" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef spent all her days in the small town of Port Dundas, Ontario, and is now making her way toward retirement with something less than grace. Hobbled by a bad back and a dependence on painkillers, she's also blindsided by divorce after nearly four decades of m...

'NIGHTMARE': WHEN FACT AND FICTION COLLIDEDetective Inspector Hazel Micallef is recovering from a bad year, and a traumatic back operation that has left her in the care of her ex husband and his new wife.But Hazel is lured back to work when a body is pulled from a nearby lake: a discovery that eerily mirrors a disturbing story printed in the local newspaper.The author of the tale can't be found, and when gruesome, taunting clues begin to arrive Haze...

‘That rare unplug-the-phone, skip-all-meals, ignore-your-bedtime thriller.’ GILLIAN FLYNNDetective Inspector Hazel Micallef is making her way towards retirement after keeping the peace in the sleepy town of Port Dundas for many years. But when a local woman is found murdered – her mouth gruesomely shaped into a silent cry – Hazel and her department are faced with their biggest case yet.They soon discover that this is not the first time a body has been found...

"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 octogenar...

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

The first homicide that Canadian 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 kilometers away, the mutilated body of an multiple sclerosis sufferer is found, painted in Chandler's blood, Micallef realizes that someone is killing the terminally ill, and not for mercy's sake. Hobbled ...

Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef is having a bad year. After major back surgery, she moves into her ex-husband's home to be cared for by his new wife. As if that weren't enough to cope with, her octogenarian mother is insisting that Hazel end her dependence on painkillers—an insistence that takes the form of secretly flushing Hazel's stash down the toilet.It's almost a relief when Hazel gets a call about a body found in one of the lakes near Port Dundas. But what raises the hair ...

Michael Redhill’s new Hazel Micallef mystery, written under the pen name of Inger Ash Wolfe, is his strongest yet. Readers of crime fiction who enjoy such writers as Giles Blunt, Lee Child, and Louise Penny will devour this latest installment.The fourth novel in this acclaimed series is brilliantly paced and addictively suspenseful. Hazel Micallef has become one of crime writing’s most memorable detectives. Taking place in the quintessential Canadian town, The Night Bell m...