Book Review

The Calling (2008)

EW's GRADE
A-

Details Release Date: May 05, 2008; Writer: Inger Ash Wolfe; Genres: Fiction, Mystery and Thriller; Publisher: Harcourt

After a string of terminally ill residents are found brutally murdered across Canada, sexagenarian detective Hazel Micallef must chase down the crafty, religion-obsessed killer in Inger Ash Wolfe's The Calling.

Movie Pitch
Murder, She Wrote meets David Fincher's Seven.

Lowdown
Wolfe — a pseudonym for a ''prominent North American literary novelist'' — creates a compelling, unlikely hero and delivers hair-raising thrills. A-

Originally posted May 02, 2008 Published in issue #990 May 09, 2008 Order article reprints

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