A Unique Addition To the Thriller Genre!
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Ray Palen
Ray Palen is an amateur actor, book/film reviewer and runs a successful Theatre group on Long Island with his wife. An avid reader who regularly reads up to 3 books per week, Ray has been published on multiple on-line and national print publications. He lives with his wife, Debbie, in Suffolk County, Long Island, NY. By Ray Palen
Published on 08/13/2009
61-year old Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef leads the local police department in the small Candadian town of Port Dundas. When an elderly resident is found brutally murdered, Hazel soon begins to locate trace of a pattern that leads to a country-wide manhunt for killer with a unique calling and unpredictable hidden agenda!
"The Calling" - Inger Ash Wolfe
Inger Ash Wolfe's first novel, "The Calling", is unlike anything else I have read to date in the thriller/serial killer genre. Actually, it is unfair to reduce it such a description as this amazing novel enters unchartered territory while telling a compelling tale.
In a small town in Canada called Port Dundas, the 61-year old head of the local police squad, Hazel Micallef, is dealing with an elderly mother (and former town Mayor), the fact that she is still in love with her long-since divorced husband and dealing with crippling back pain that has caused a total dependence on Percoset (among other things). When an elderly resident of the town is found brutally murdered, the small town is in shock. Little do they know that this murder was one in a series of bizarre murders of terminally ill, senior citizens across the entire breadth of the country. The person responsible for these killings goes only as, Simon. To Simon, these are not murders but simply a humane release of people from the bonds that near-death has shackled upon them. Simon was the leader of a strange "Church" where herbology is the medicine to soothe the body and his twisted, pseudo-reliougious agenda the remedy to save their souls. It is his singularly unique "calling" that gives the novel its' title.
Hazel along with her team of Ray Greene, newcomer James Wingate and in influx of outside help band together to form a country-wide web hopeful of catching the killer they have nick-named, Belladonna. Because these are small towns in Norhtern Canada that are not privy to the most up-to-date forensic or criminology standards, they must rely on their own gut instincts as well as the assistance of a computer-video expert and a Priest to try to determine what message Simon's victims are trying to speak in the odd poses he has so meticulously left them to be found in.
The novel is unpredictable and never dull, with compelling and very real characters throughout. To use a cliche, this is a 'page-turner' of the highest caliber and I challenge any reader to fight the urge to complete it in one sitting. Inger Ash Wolfe is listed as a pseudonym for a North American literary author. The biggest questions I am left with are - who is this terrific talent and when will the next Hazel Micallef novel be available? I only wish I had the author's real name so that I could personally accolade them with a job well done and an unforgettable read. Bravo!
In a small town in Canada called Port Dundas, the 61-year old head of the local police squad, Hazel Micallef, is dealing with an elderly mother (and former town Mayor), the fact that she is still in love with her long-since divorced husband and dealing with crippling back pain that has caused a total dependence on Percoset (among other things). When an elderly resident of the town is found brutally murdered, the small town is in shock. Little do they know that this murder was one in a series of bizarre murders of terminally ill, senior citizens across the entire breadth of the country. The person responsible for these killings goes only as, Simon. To Simon, these are not murders but simply a humane release of people from the bonds that near-death has shackled upon them. Simon was the leader of a strange "Church" where herbology is the medicine to soothe the body and his twisted, pseudo-reliougious agenda the remedy to save their souls. It is his singularly unique "calling" that gives the novel its' title.
Hazel along with her team of Ray Greene, newcomer James Wingate and in influx of outside help band together to form a country-wide web hopeful of catching the killer they have nick-named, Belladonna. Because these are small towns in Norhtern Canada that are not privy to the most up-to-date forensic or criminology standards, they must rely on their own gut instincts as well as the assistance of a computer-video expert and a Priest to try to determine what message Simon's victims are trying to speak in the odd poses he has so meticulously left them to be found in.
The novel is unpredictable and never dull, with compelling and very real characters throughout. To use a cliche, this is a 'page-turner' of the highest caliber and I challenge any reader to fight the urge to complete it in one sitting. Inger Ash Wolfe is listed as a pseudonym for a North American literary author. The biggest questions I am left with are - who is this terrific talent and when will the next Hazel Micallef novel be available? I only wish I had the author's real name so that I could personally accolade them with a job well done and an unforgettable read. Bravo!