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I heard about the books by Inger Ash Wolfe from a favorite Canadian book blogger. The Calling is a creepy, thrilling suspense novel, well-plotted with great characters. I adore the protagonist, Hazel Micallef.

I discovered Jo Nesbø while search for a mystery/thriller to read as I waited for Henning Mankell books to be published in the US. The thing that holds me to a mystery series, or any series really, is the characters, with all their flaws and bad behavior, and the way they relate to each other and those around them. If they are well written I will put up with almost anything. Nesbo's protagonist,Harry Hole, is deeply flawed and often behaves very badly, but I care about him and about his friends and colleagues. In the middle of a cold, moonlit night a young boy, Jonas wakes up and finds his mother gone. Looking out his window at his yard bathed in eerie light he sees a snowman that mysteriously appeared earlier that day. Around the snowman’s neck is a pink scarf that belongs to his mother. Harry Hole, contrary police inspector and recovering alcoholic, receives a letter and believes it is connected to the disappearance. An officer new to the Crime Squad, Katrine Bratt, is eager to help Harry make those connections. This is just the beginning of a mystery with many twist and turns, one that had me reading way past my bedtime.

Part social history, part art history, this family memoir is beautifully written.