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Title: A Door in the River
Subtitle: A Hazel Micallef Mystery, Book 3
Author: Inger Ash Wolfe
Narrator: Bernadette Dunne
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-05-12
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 31 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
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.
Members Reviews:
Does not follow a formula
I imagine that most readers of this series know by now that Inger Ash Wolfe is a pseudonym for a more serious poet, playwright and fiction writer named Michael Redhill. I don't know Redhill's motives for embarking on this writing adventure, but I am pleased that he did. Supposing that many, many readers of crime fiction are "women of a certain age", like myself, Mr. Redhill may have been writing for a ready audience, I don't know. But I refuse to wax cynical about this, and prefer to simply enjoy the books, of which this is the third and most recent.
Hazel Micallef is a sixty-ish Canadian Detective Inspector, whose life is in disarray, both professionally and personally. She begins this book suspecting that the death of a well-liked hardware store owner in her small town was not an accident. Of course, she is right. Aided by her young protege James Wingate, Hazel rushes headlong into an investigation, caring little for protocol, jurisdictions and procedures. I have to admit that I sometimes tire of her impulsiveness (will she never learn?), but she is usually correct, as it turns out.
The most unique aspect of this novel is its refusal to follow the sort of formula that generally characterizes police procedurals. While I do appreciate the author's refusal to follow a formula, I have to say that I sometimes find things getting a bit muddled in the center.
Nevertheless, I do look forward to the continuing story of Hazel Micallef and hope he is not finished with her yet.
Another brilliant entry in the Hazel Micallef series.
What disappointed me most is when I found out that the anonymous author behind this terrific Canadian murder-mystery series was a man. I just was amazed by that as the lead character in this series, Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef, is written with such a keen feminine sensibility it seemed impossible for a male writer to gain such insight.
That being said, A DOOR IN THE RIVER, is the third entry in this series. Even though Hazel Micallef is a 'mature' woman and policing out of a quiet Canadian burb called Port Dunduz, there is much going on beneath the surface. Like David Lynch's film, "Blue Velvet", what appears to be white-picket fence suburbia is actually festering with evil that bubbles just beneath the surface.
In this case, a friend of Hazel's is murdered for no apparant reason. The investigation leads Hazel to a town with a Native American casino at its' heart. However, the casino is only a distraction to what is really going on. An underground --- literally under the river --- secret club where sex, drugs, human traficking and a form of slavery is being sold.
