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The Night Bell (A Detective Hazel Micallef Mystery) Kindle Edition

by Inger Ash Wolfe (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The new novel in this acclaimed series is brilliantly paced, addictively suspenseful—the author's best yet. Hazel Micallef (played by Susan Sarandon in the recent film of the series' debut, The Calling) has become one of crime writing's most memorable detectives. The Night Bell moves between the past and the present in Port Dundas, Ontario, as two mysteries converge. A discovery of the bones of murdered children is made on land that was once a county foster home. Now it's being developed as a brand new subdivision whose first residents are already railing against broken promises and corruption. But when three of these residents are murdered after the discovery of the children's bones, frustration turns to terror. While trying to stem the panic and solve two crimes at once, Hazel Micallef finds her memory stirred back to the fall of 1959, when the disappearance of a girl from town was blamed on her adopted brother. Although he is long dead, she begins to see the present case as a chance to clear her brother's name, something that drives Hazel beyond her own considerable limits and right into the sights of an angry killer.
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Praise for the Hazel Micallef series:

   • "A rare unplug-the-phone, skip-all-meals, ignore-your-bedtime thriller. It's twisty, sharp and very, very creepy - and Det. Hazel Micallef is a perfectly original charmer." Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl 

   • "Wolfe had me from the first page and never let me go. I absolutely loved Hazel Micallef." Kate Atkinson

About the Author

INGER ASH WOLFE is the pseudonym for critically acclaimed author Michael Redhill.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B019G14Z3Q
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pegasus Crime (August 9, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 9, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2109 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 391 pages
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Serge Pesic
5.0 out of 5 stars Right on point
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2022
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And finally, the last book in this exceptional series. The book was published in 2015, before we were aware of the monstrous treatment of Native children in orphanages. Now, seven years later, after all we learned, the novel seems right on point. Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef is a great sleuth, and my only regret is that this is a last book in the series. Hopefully, the author changes his mind and surprises us with few more.
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Kristin Galloway
4.0 out of 5 stars Suspenseful Mystery
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2016
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This mystery was very suspenseful and the characters were interesting. It was a page turner. However, I was dismayed by the many typos I encountered. This interferes with the reader's connection to the story line. I hope the other mysteries by this author have been better proofed!
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BOOKLOVER EB
3.0 out of 5 stars "They weren't even given the courtesy of an unmarked grave."
Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2016
Inger Ash Wolfe is the pseudonym of Michael Redhill, author of "The Night Bell," the fourth of the Detective Hazel Micallef mysteries set in Canada's Port Dundas, Ontario. Sixty-four year old Hazel remains as blunt, impulsive, sarcastic and passionate about her job as ever. Unfortunately, Hazel's ninety-year-old mother, Emily, once the town's mayor, is ailing. She is forgetful, eats poorly, and sleeps most of the day. Although the main action takes place in 2007, Wolfe takes us back repeatedly to the 1950s. In 1957, when Hazel was fourteen, one of the girls she knew vanished and was never seen again. Hazel also remembers her adopted brother, Alan, who was emotionally scarred by the loss of his birth mother and the abuse inflicted on him by his alcoholic father.

In 2007, Hazel takes on a case that involves the discovery of human bones at a construction site. She fears that the remains are those of boys who, during the fifties, lived in a group residence called the Dublin Home. Although DI Micallef is elbowed aside by her superior, Commander Ray Greene, and by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, she continues conducting her own inquiries. She risks Greene's wrath by recruiting Detective Sergeant James Wingate, an officer who was seriously injured and is limited to administrative duties, to help her dig into old records for information about what really happened in the orphanage.

The quality of Wolfe's writing is uneven and the plot of "The Night Bell" is muddled, cluttered, and ultimately unsatisfying. People stabbed to death early on are all but forgotten until the concluding pages; one of Hazel's colleagues is abducted; and Hazel and Wingate, without permission, spend many hours trying to reconstruct the events that led to the deaths of the aforementioned youngsters. This work of fiction touches on political and financial misconduct, the victimization of those who have no one to fight for them, and the masks individuals wear in public to hide the rottenness at their core. Readers who admire Hazel's spunk will continue to cheer for her, even if this far-fetched, melodramatic, and convoluted tale is not the ideal vehicle for our formidable heroine.
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M. Graff
5.0 out of 5 stars Hazel Micallef a detective for all ages.
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2016
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There's something so real about Hazel and her world that the crimes she inevitably has a hand in solving become important to the reader because they are important to Hazel. Dealing with her mother's deterioration, with her own ghosts of her youth, and the disability of a colleague are all heaped on her plate when bones from the grounds of an abandoned home for boys surface at a housing development. Then several residents in the development are murdered, and new bodies begin to pile up with the old. A complex plot with compelling characters make this one of my favorite series. Highly recommended.
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Cathy G. Cole
4.0 out of 5 stars Hazel Micallef is one of my favorite characters in all of crime fiction
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2016
It's taken eight years for the pseudonymous Inger Ash Wolfe to write four Hazel Micallef books, and if this is what it takes to maintain the high quality of the series, I'm certainly not going to complain and beg the author to write faster. Fans have experienced quite a bit through these four books: superiors wanting Hazel off the force, the sixtysomething Hazel's back surgery and recuperation, Hazel's care of her mother Emily as Emily's mental and physical health continue to deteriorate, as well as a passel of hair-raising cases that would make many police officers retire. Hazel Micallef is one of the best characters in crime fiction; she ranks right up there on my list with Fiona Griffiths and Dr. Ruth Galloway. I'd no more forget to read the newest Inger Ash Wolfe mystery than I would wake up in the morning and forget to put on my glasses.

There are two crimes being investigated in The Night Bell. The present-day one is solved rather quickly and behind the scenes because it is the old case, the case that Hazel wants to solve for her brother, that is the main focus of attention. It is interesting to inhabit Hazel's childhood memories, to see what sort of little girl she was. Those memories prove to be very important in solving the case, too. Her main source of help is James Wingate who was gravely injured in the last book, A Door in the River. Wingate is supposed to be on light duty, and he certainly isn't officially on the roster, but his work is key in helping Hazel solve the cold case-- and it has a lot to do with the fact that Hazel is the only one on the force who believes in him.

I may have spotted the killer in the cold case early on, but that didn't matter much. When the title of this book was explained, my blood ran cold, and all I could think about was justice. Don't be surprised if you feel the very same way.

Are you new to the Hazel Micallef books? Technically you can start just about anywhere because the author does a good job of filling in enough of the backstory to keep things clear. But if you truly love unique characters and delight in watching their progress over a period of time, please start at the very beginning with The Calling. You'll be in for a treat!
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Nana S. Cheshire
5.0 out of 5 stars I can't tell you how much I love this author and this series
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2016
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I can't tell you how much I love this author and this series. I wish he would write faster. I also wish they would make a movies out of every one of the books and use the original actors from the Calling.
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5.0 out of 5 stars cost
Reviewed in Canada on January 7, 2023
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I liked the fact that the book came early- before Christmas !!! It was what I wanted, so I was very pleased with my purchase.
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A. Williams
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 30, 2017
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This was used but was very happy nice clean copy
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Andrea
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 4, 2017
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ppsphil
4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Read and The Best in This Series So Far
Reviewed in Canada on August 9, 2016
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Super -I originally rated this book with 3 stars but after thinking about it for awhile I've increased my rating to 4 stars. I tend to agree that The Night Bell is the best so far in this series and Michael Redhill alias Inger Ash Wolfe is starting to get the hang of writing a decent mystery/police procedural. This one isn't quite so overloaded with excess characters that aren't really necessary for any of the plot lines and we do get a bit of an idea of why Michael was introduced at the end of book 3 however a bit more backstory on Michael may have been a nice addition to the story. There are 3 major storylines in this book and at first I thought the shifting back and forth between the 50 year old cold case and the present day stories was going to be a bit confusing but Mr. Wolfe/Redhill managed that quite well and all 3 stories eventually merge into an overall satisfactory ending helped by 3 separate twists which were, for a change, not just wrung in from left field but actually preceded by enough clues that a reader had a chance of seeing them coming. Lot's of action and, again for a change, it was not so far over the top as to be unbelievable and the Mounties although they are burdened with all the usual bureaucratic hurdles are not portrayed in quite as a bad a manner as they usually are in many books. Hazel is a strong character even if she is a bit of an unorthodox investigator, her mother is something else again and James Wingate is still the best character in these books. This is a good read that I really enjoyed but, I'll say it again, I don't know how a reader could understand Hazel, or many of the other characters, without having read the previous books in order. I'll definitely read any more books in this series that Mr. Redhill/Wolfe writes.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Well Written Mystery
Reviewed in Canada on December 13, 2016
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Hazel Micallef, reads as a whole person, a sixty something divorcee, who loves her mother and her job as a police officer. She's a strong female character who is "made out of material they don't make anymore". In this installment she is working to find who murdered young boys living in the old orphanage in the 1950s, among other things. A really good story, I hope the author is writing more sequels.
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