Inger Ash Wolfe Books In Order

Hazel Micallef Books In Publication Order

  1. The Calling (2008)
  2. The Taken (2009)
  3. A Door in the River (2011)
  4. The Night Bell (2015)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Martin Sloane (As: Michael Redhill) (2001)
  2. Consolation (As:Michael Redhill) (2006)
  3. Saving Houdini (As: Michael Redhill) (2014)
  4. Bellevue Square (As:Michael Redhill) (2017)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Red Hand (As: Michael Redhill) (2012)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Impromptu Feats of Balance (As: Michael Redhill) (1990)
  2. Lake Nora Arms (As: Michael Redhill) (1994)
  3. Asphodel (As: Michael Redhill) (1997)
  4. Light-Crossing (As: Michael Redhill) (2001)
  5. Fidelity (As: Michael Redhill) (2003)

Plays In Publication Order

  1. Building Jerusalem (As: Michael Redhill) (2001)
  2. Goodness (As: Michael Redhill) (2001)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Lost Classics (As: Michael Redhill) (2000)

Michael Redhill Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Impromptu Feats of Balance (1990)
  2. Lake Nora Arms (1994)
  3. Asphodel (1997)
  4. Light-Crossing (2001)
  5. Fidelity: Stories (2003)
  6. Twitch Force (2019)

Michael Redhill Plays In Publication Order

  1. Building Jerusalem (2001)
  2. Goodness (2001)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Blues & True Concussions (1996)
  2. The Notebooks (2002)
  3. The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2009 (2009)

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Inger Ash Wolfe Books Overview

The Calling

There were thirteen crime scene pictures. Dead faces set in grimaces and shouts. Faces howling, whistling, moaning, crying, hissing. Hazel pinned them to the wall and stood back. It was a silent opera of ghosts.

Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef has lived all her days in the small town of Port Dundas and is now making her way toward retirement with something less than grace. Hobbled by a bad back and a dependence on painkillers, and feeling blindsided by divorce after nearly four decades of marriage, sixty one year old Hazel has only the constructive criticism of her old goat of a mother and her own sharp tongue to buoy her. But when a terminally ill Port Dundas woman is gruesomely murdered in her own home, Hazel and her understaffed department must spring to life. And as one terminally ill victim after another is found their bodies drained of blood, their mouths sculpted into strange shapes Hazel finds herself tracking a truly terrifying serial killer across the country while everything she was barely holding together begins to spin out of control.

Through the cacophony of her bickering staff, her unsupportive superiors, a clamoring press, the town’s rumor mill, and her own nagging doubts, Hazel can sense the dead trying to call out. But what secret do they have to share? And will she hear it before it’s too late?

In The Calling, Inger Ash Wolfe brings a compelling new voice and an irresistible new hero*ine to the mystery world.

Presented unabridged on 9 CDs; narrated by Bernadette Dunne.

The Taken

Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef is having a bad year. After major back surgery, she has no real option but to move into her ex husband’s baseme*nt and suffer the humiliation of his new wife bringing her meals down on a tray. As if that weren t enough, Hazel s octogenarian mother secretly flushes Hazel s stash of painkillers down the toilet. It s almost a relief when Hazel gets a call about a body fished up by tourists in one of the lakes near Port Dundas. But what raises the hair on the back of Micallef s neck is that the local paper has just published the first installment of a serialized story featuring such a scenario. Even before they head out to the lake with divers to recover the body, she and DC James Wingate, leading the police detachment in Micallef s absence, know they are being played. But it s not clear who is pulling their strings and why, nor is what they find at the lake at all what they expected. It s Micallef herself who is snared, caught up in a cryptic game devised by someone who knows how to taunt her into opening a cold case, someone who knows that nothing will stop her investigation. The second novel featuring Hazel Micallef, a compelling, unlikely hero Entertainment Weekly, is a stunning and suspenseful exploration of the obsessive far reaches of love, confirming Inger Ash Wolfe as one of the best mystery writers today.

Martin Sloane (As: Michael Redhill)

What does it really mean to love another person? The question hovers like a persistent wisp of fog over the story of Martin Sloane, an Irish born artist who creates intricate, object filled boxes, and Jolene Iolas, the young American woman who finds herself drawn first to Martin Sloanes art and then to the man himself. The story of their relationship across two decades, and of Jolenes search for Martin Sloane when one day he disappears from their home without warning or explanation, is told in a novel that brilliantly and movingly explores the vagaries of love and friendship, the burdens of personal history, and the enigmatic power of art. The first book in Back Bays new program of publishing one work of quality fiction per season in trade paperback original format. A novel that will appeal to readers of such trade paperback original bestsellers as Penelope Fitzgeralds The Blue Flower, Jhumpa Lahiris Interpreter of Maladies, and Ahdaf Soueifs The Map of Love. Redhill drew inspiration from the work of Joseph Cornell, a fixture in the New York art world from the 1940s 1970s. Martin Sloane is already a critically acclaimed bestseller in Canada.

Consolation (As:Michael Redhill)

From the award winning author of ‘Martin Sloane’ and ‘Fidelity’ comes a riveting story of two families in different centuries one searching for the past, the other creating a record of it.

Lake Nora Arms (As: Michael Redhill)

Lake Nora Arms skillfully navigates the ‘blue hallways’ of memory and longing, drawing on tastes and touches as if for the first time. It immerses and envelops us in a mythical place that readers have wanted to return to ever since the book was first published. As Redhill writes, ‘I want you to sleep in Lake Nora Arms’ and now you can.

Light-Crossing (As: Michael Redhill)

Light Crossing is an electric field of love and attraction, where invisible currents conjoin, cross, and charge the atmosphere with possibility and latent tension. Whether discussing the love between father and infant son, a man and the woman he spots from afar, or a husband and wife, the poems pulse with eroticism and the sweet accretions of memory.

Fidelity (As: Michael Redhill)

Michael Redhill conjures up many unexpected twists in 10 richly textured stories that range from the darkness of family silences to the hilarity of people caught in their own snares. The vulnerabilities of Redhill’s characters are our own: a business trip affair leaves a man humbled in ways he cannot anticipate; a young lover discovers she does not understand what connects people to each other; a traveling salesman, in trying to remain friends with his ex wife, keeps breaking her heart; and a teenager’s shocking sexuality inflicts wounds on her family. FIDELITY probes the nature of temptation and desire, the ambivalence at the heart of our most intimate trusts, and the paradox of betrayal, which is that we cannot deceive others unless we have first deceived ourselves. With his unflinching attention to emotional detail, Redhill proves once again to be ‘a writer of considerable humanity and insight.’ A. L. Kennedy

Building Jerusalem (As: Michael Redhill)

Building Jerusalemtakes place on New Year’s Eve, 1899, in the Grange, one of the grandest houses in Toronto. Now the home of the celebrated writer Goldwyn Smith, it is to be the scene of a New Year s party for four auspicious guests. When their host is delayed, the guests are entertained instead by his beautiful young niece, Alice. Little do they know what surprises await as the century creeps closer.

Goodness (As: Michael Redhill)

This remarkable autobiographical play by the award winning author of Building Jerusalem and Martin Sloane, is a Russian doll like play: concentric stories enveloping each other. A writer is told, in confidence, a terrible tale of murder and injustice and he promises never to repeat the story. Goodness is the writer breaking his word. Recently divorced, Michael Redhill goes to Poland to get away frm his life and to do some research on the Holocaust. Thwarted by witnesses unwilling to talk, he returns home via England, but in London is introduced to someone who can tell him a ‘real’ story of evil. Through this reluctant witness, Redhill learns of a genocide. He encounters, through the memory of the storyteller, an alleged war criminal, about to be put on trial. But this is an old man with Alzheimer’s who can no longer remember the time his crimes were allegedly committed. Has his guilt dissolved with his memory? Could he be pretending to be ill in order to escape punishment? The witness conjures for Redhill the war criminal’s passionate and beautiful daughter, who will defend her father at all costs. There is also the prosecuting attorney, who has much in common with the old man whose destruction he seeks. As well as an uncomfortable attraction to his daughter. Each is drawn to the other. All is witnessed by a female prison guard the one who tells the playwright, years later, what really happened in the quest to give a nation some closure. Everyone’s story is compelling, and the ending is as unexpected as it is shocking. Who do we believe? A prison guard still wounded by history? A writer suffering from heartache? A dying war criminal? What is our responsibility? Who does memory serve? Did the past really happen? And if it did, who has a claim on it?Goodness is a play about what happens in the gaps between experiencing, telling and hearing.

Lost Classics (As: Michael Redhill)

An Anchor Books OriginalSeventy four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost great books overlooked, under read, out of print, stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out of commission. Compiled by the editors of Brick: A Literary Magazine, Lost Classics is a reader’s delight: an intriguing and entertaining collection of eulogies for lost books. As the editors have written in a joint introduction to the book, being lovers of books, we ve pulled a scent of these absences behind us our whole reading lives, telling people about books that exist only on our own shelves, or even just in our own memory. Anyone who has ever been changed by a book will find kindred spirits in the pages of Lost Classics. Each of the editors has contributed a lost book essay to this collection, including Michael Ondaatje on Sri Lankan filmmaker Tissa Abeysekara s Bringing Tony Home, a novella about a mutual era of childhood. Also included are Margaret Atwood on sex and death in the scandalous Doctor Glas, first published in Sweden in 1905; Russell Banks on the off beat travelogue Too Late to Turn Back by Barbara Greene the slightly ditzy cousin of Graham; Bill Richardson on a children s book for adults by Russell Hoban; Ronald Wright on William Golding s Pincher Martin; Caryl Phillips on Michael Mac Liammoir s account of his experiences on the set of Orson Welles s Othello, and much, much more.

Fidelity: Stories

Michael Redhill conjures up many unexpected twists in 10 richly textured stories that range from the darkness of family silences to the hilarity of people caught in their own snares. The vulnerabilities of Redhill’s characters are our own: a business trip affair leaves a man humbled in ways he cannot anticipate; a young lover discovers she does not understand what connects people to each other; a traveling salesman, in trying to remain friends with his ex wife, keeps breaking her heart; and a teenager’s shocking sexuality inflicts wounds on her family. FIDELITY probes the nature of temptation and desire, the ambivalence at the heart of our most intimate trusts, and the paradox of betrayal, which is that we cannot deceive others unless we have first deceived ourselves. With his unflinching attention to emotional detail, Redhill proves once again to be ‘a writer of considerable humanity and insight.’ A. L. Kennedy

The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2009

The Globe and Mail called the Griffin Poetry Prize a rich tribute to the form and an annual report on the state of the poetry nation. This year’s edition, featuring some of the finest work from the collections of extraordinary poets worldwide, reads like a who s who of contemporary poetry. Selections were chosen by noted poets Michael Redhill, Saskia Hamilton, and Dennis O Driscoll, and the result is a rich mosaic of a form that remains, in its relatively compact shape but often complex language, one of literature’s most enduring gifts.

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