Book Review 5 [September Holidays Assignment]: The Calling by Inger Ash Wolfe

Since commanding officer of the Port Dundas detachment of the Ontario Police Services retired, Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef has been running the office on an acting basis. Port Dundas does not have a high crime rate, she admits. “Diseases, suicides and traffic accidents are the main cause of high death rate.” However, Hazel, a divorcee, with a fondness for painkillers and whiskey, is not exactly a crime-fighting powerhouse. Thereafter, mutilated body of Delia Chandler is discovered in town, followed by the body of a man in Chamberlain, 315 kilometers to the east, a few days later. Hazel and her officers, including the recently transferred Detective Constable James Wingate searches for the killer who is moving across Canada.