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This thrilling psychological tale stands alongside the best contributions to the genre by Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell), Minette Walters, and Patricia Highsmith.
Harcourt
May 2008
On Sale: May 3, 2008
371 pages
ISBN: 0151013470
EAN: 9780151013470
Hardcover
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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.
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Comments
3 comments posted.
Re: The Calling
I like books with a little bit of humor.
(Marie Unis 12:03pm July 4, 2008)
I like a fast paced book with some humor thrown in also.
(Shirley Jones 11:16pm July 7, 2008)
The perfect book for me is a thriller with a touch of romance to heat things up and a bit of humor to keep it relaxing!
(Dianne Westbrook 7:40am August 19, 2008)
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