Taken（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　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 basement 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.