Pick Up A Door In The River (Hazel Micallef Mystery #3) Depicted By Inger Ash Wolfe Listed As Script

I enjoyed A Door in the River by Inger Ash Wolfe, I did not find the story as intriguing as the other books in the series, The plot was a little predictable, I will still continue on in the series,stars

Favorite passage:

A cop's wife said that even in the nude, he looked like a cop, A great and complex mystery written by a Canadian who usually writes literary he/she writes mysteries under this pseudonym,

Anyhow, I loved this book, read it in a day, Just sat on my porch at the Cape in the cool breeze and read and read and got stiff reading so I switched to a small antique rocker I have with a wicker seat and I read until I was done.


Complex, multilayered, with insight to characters which I love and a range of situations and events that kept me turning the pages, A local man who is wellknown and wellloved for always 'being there' when someone needs a hand is found dead wasp sting behind a smoke shop, There's a reservation casino up the road and lots of sneakytype folks here and there, There's a also a young woman on the run and she's tasering and sometimes killing everyone she runs into, Well, not everyone, just those on her Aryatype list, Forgive the GOT reference it's on my mind of late,

Anyhow, MC Hazel Micallef, in her early's, is the CO of a small police force, She's got issues of her own, what with a crankyyear old mother and the fact that Hazel isn't the easiest person in the world to get along with.
She's got her 'crew' though, associates, constables, etc, who are all on her side, It's left to her and them to sort out what's going on at the smoke shop, if anything, and what the young woman wants who's easing in and out of the woods, often barefoot, tasering people.


Most definitely my kind of book and I'm thrilled to learn there is one more at least in this series, Mystery and police procedural readers should pick up a book by Inger Ash Wolfe a pseudonym for Michael Redhill, Inger/Michael writes a mean police procedural with a distinctive protaganist for this genre, Hazel Micallef is a small town Ontario police chief in hers, Hazel doesn't care to be politically astute and she doesn't waste a lot of time on niceties, but she gets the job done, In this entry in the series, a popular local man is murdered on the nearby First Nations reserve, Originally, the death appeared to be based on natural causes, This didn't sit right with Hazel because she couldn't come up with a valid explanation as to why the victim was in that particular spot late at night.
Hazel's dogged determination pays off when a second autopsy reveals they have a homicide victim on their hands, Soon Hazel and company are dealing with a minicrime spree with an unidentified young woman as the culprit,

The pace is fast and the writing is great, Having said that, this book was my least favourite in the series, The plot seemed overly complex in parts, stretching the believability factor for me, Nonetheless, Inger/Michael is one of my favourite mystery writers, If you haven't read anything by Inger Ash Wolfe, you're missing out on a great series, Another complicated plot featuring Detective Hazel Micallef, Micallef oversees a squad in a rural area in Ontario, Canada, Technically, she belongs to the province's police department and therefore has the run of the entire province, With the help of protege Constable Wingate I think it's constable, she follows the leads regardless of where they take her,

A man is found behind a convenience store, apparently the victim of a bee sting, which led to a heart attack, Others think it's tragic but an accident, Micallef thinks otherwise. Too many questions don't have good answers, She takes on the case and declares it a homicide, But how and why

It takes a good many interviews leading to other interviews but finally the detectives hit upon a scheme to expose a racket, a scheme that threatens their lives.


It is hard

to find the equal of these plots, which do hang together, however unlikely, It is also hard to find the equal of the character development in these books, I love Hazel's cranky character and the fact that she is an older woman without many attractive physical traits, If a television series is ever done on this series I hope the actress playing Hazel is not a beauty,

Beyond the characters of the detectives, Wolfe brings us interesting characters in the main plot, often people we might want to meet again,
Underwhelmed by this latest addition to the series, It reads as if rushed, Awkward sentences "body being operated from without" erm, huh Poor plot structure, P"he absolved her" this for a woman who was horrifically abused from a man who supposedly loved her

Not enough Hazel and mother interactions which were one of the hooks in the enjoyment of the other two books.


Oh, and I also saw the maguffin from just about the beginning, Disliked the portrayal of First Nations police,

And Hazel viciously assaulting another cop Puhleese, The woman is overand a senior officer,

Seriously disappointed. I think that Hazel is supposed to be a female antihero, She is an unlikable protagonist with whom the reader has some sympathy, but she has too few redeeming qualities, If she weren't so racist she might have coordinated with the authorities at the Native American reservation, and solved the mystery halfway through the book with far fewer casualties.
If the first murder victim had gone to the authorities there probably wouldn't be a book at all, Also, the murderer gets away thanks to Hazel, and kills again, The writing isn't good enough to make up for the poor plot, First Line: Saturday, August,:p, m. She needed to get to the road,

Inspector Hazel Micallef is the type of character I love, and my love affair with her began with the first book, The Calling, In that book, she is theyearold interim police chief of a small town force in the province of Ontario, Canada, She's divorced, not particularly likeable, and is racked with pain, She lives with her octogenarian largerthanlife mother who's an exmayor of the town in which they live, Hazel is smart, relies a lot on her intuition, and doesn't know the meaning of the word quit,

In the second book, The Taken, she finds herself forced to live in the basement of her exhusband's house after back surgery and forced to rely upon not only her exhusband, but his current wife, for almost everything she needs.
For someone as independent and obstinate as Hazel, this is an almost unbearable situation but she learns from it, She may be stubborn, but she's not stupid,

In this third book, Hazel's story continues, One of the most popular and wellknown men in the community has been found dead in the parking lot of a smoke shop on a nearby reservation, The autopsy shows that the man died of anaphylactic shock after being stung by a wasp, Hazel does not believe the findings, She knows the man, and after talking with others who were even closer to him, too many things just don't add up,

Then in short order, the dead man's wife is attacked, and another man is killed, Both crimes have a common denominator: a lone woman who seems to be desperately searching for something, Who is she What is she looking for Is she also responsible for the first man's death Is Hazel going to be able to solve these crimes before someone else dies

It's a good thing that Hazel is a strong woman because there's a lot more on her plate than a few violent crimes.
She's just been informed that there are changes afoot in the police department, one of them being that she has a new boss a man whom she used to supervise just a short while ago.
But even more worrying than the crimes and the new boss is the fact that Hazel'syearold mother, who's always been so vibrant and full of vinegar, seems to be giving up.
As a daughter who loves her mother dearly, this is the hardest thing for her to face, Give Hazel a bad guy any day over seeing her mother lying in bed with her face to the wall,

One of the things I love most about this series is the author's skill in changing my perspective, At the beginning, the killer is a person to be feared and reviled, but as the story unfolds, we find we need to change our point of view.
This is about much more than a woman on the rampage, and as Hazel puts the clues together, she understands this and knows that she will not rest until everyone responsible is brought to justice.


Larysa is one of the best "villains" I've read in years, As more and more is learned about this woman, my perspective continually shifted from fear and abhorrence to understanding to great unease, She is a character to remember,

As is Hazel, In her many years of policing, she's excellent at her job, although her people skills are sadly lacking, If she cares about someone and that person is in danger, she will literally move heaven and earth to save them, regardless of the cost to herself,

I've just learned that there are three more books planned in this series, and I couldn't be happier, With superbly plotted stories and a strongwilled quirky main character, this is one series that I want to hang onto for dear life, Is this one of the formulas for books that you love Then I highly recommend that you get your hands on all three of these books, Is it necessary to read them all in order for them to make sense Not all all, But when a character like Hazel is involved, you don't want to miss a word of her story!
Another pageturner in the Hazel Micallef series, although this one had larger print and bigger margins so I read it in one day.
Interesting but fairly unbelievable plot, Don't know if I'll read any more of these, but I do like picturing Susan Sarandon as Hazel, She played her in the movie adaptation of The Calling, It was obvious to me from the start that Inger Ash Wolfe was really a man, because the action in this series is very violent and often gory.
Also, the shocking ending of this story was extremely disappointing, The first two novels in this series captivated me, This one, however, created a sense of restless boredom as I read about an unpleasant topic that has been the premise of numerous books, I will keep hopeful, and wait for the fourth book in the series, I really enjoy the Inger Ash Wolfe books, and hope there will be more, Hazel is a quirky crabby heroine who is a lot of fun to read about, and her equally quirky mother is also intersting,
I wonder who this author really is, as the name is an admitted pseudonom for a known author, Penny perhaps This story is about young girls kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery, hidden from sight underground, in the background of an illegal casino, It happens that even the souvenir shop and the legitimate casino people are involved, and one reservation police officer, In the midst of all this, Hazel has recovered from her back surgeries, moved home with her mother, and is dealing with major changes in her police department, including one person she fired now being her boss.
When Henry is found dead in the parking lot of the souvenir shop, Hazel begins working through the clues that eventually lead her to those behind the whole thing.
But there is much tragedy in this story, on many fronts the pace is fast but not hard to follow, I was surprised many times, especially at the end, I couldn't help but feel sickened as this story unfolded in a small town, and the author did not spare the reader much at all, Good read. I have read all the Hazel Micallef books but this one is the best, It is fastpaced and suspenseful, and you don't always know where the storyline is going, If you have not read any of the books by Inger Ash Wolfe, and want to start with this one, go ahead, This can be a standalone book as well as part of the series,
Premise: A friend of Hazel Micallef, Detective Inspector in Westmuir County, Canada, is found dead in the parking lot of a smoke and souvenir shop on the reserve near the casino.
Hazel cannot figure out what Henry was doing there in the middle of the night when he didn't smoke, She cannot accept the finding that he died from a wasp sting, Why was he parked there Just sitting in the lot and so late at night Then, Henry's wife is attacked at their home, Hazel launches an investigation that leads the reader down the proverbial garden path, Excellent story/Highly recommended. .