Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef is having a bad year. After major back surgery, she moves into her ex-husband s home to be cared for by his new wife. As if that weren t enough to cope with, her octogenarian mother is insisting that Hazel end her dependence on painkillers an insistence that takes the form of secretly flushing Hazel s stash down the toilet.

It s almost a relief when Hazel gets a call about a body found in one of the lakes near Port Dundas. But what raises the hair on the back of her neck is that the local paper has just published the first installment of a...

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.

The third thrilling installment in this acclaimed mystery series, A Door in the Riveris a brilliantly...