The Taken

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Detective Hazel Micallef wows in her second outing. The series is addictive. Entertainment Weekly

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A terrifyingly addictive series I m hooked! Detective Hazel Micallef investigates the creepiest of crimes. Mo Hayder, author of The Devil of Nanking

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 on the back of her 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, she and Detective Constable James Wingate know they are being played. But who is pulling their strings and why are not clear, nor is what they find at the lake at all what they expected. This is no simple drowning accident or even a straightforward murder. It s Micallef herself who is snared, caught up in a cryptic game being played by a maven of the art of deception.

Lovers of twisty but plausible plotting and an out-of-the-ordinary lead will embrace Wolfe s standout second police procedural featuring Canadian Det. Insp. Hazel Micallef. Publishers Weekly

Just as compelling as the first . . . with an even more expertly managed plot . . . Keeps the reader s heart pounding from first page to last in a distinctive and superior crime novel. Toronto Star

Inger Ash Wolfe is the author of The Calling.

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Inger Ash Wolfe is the pseudonym for a North American literary novelist. Wolfe is currently at work on the third Hazel Micallef mystery.

Bernadette Dunne has been narrating since 1997. She has been twice nominated for an Audie Award and has won six Golden Earphones awards. She studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC. She has appeared at The Kennedy Center, The Washington Shakespeare Company, and in several regional and Off-Broadway productions. She lives in New York City.