Henry Wiest has died from a wasp sting. DI Hazel Micallef wonders why
he had parked behind the smoke shop when the sting had apparently
happened. She asks for a second autopsy. That autopsy reveals that it
wasn't wasp stings, but electrocution from s Taser that led to the
victim's heart attack.
A few days later Wiest's wife is tasered
and struck on her head with a rock. Fortunately she survives. Micallef
feels that the victim would be safer in Micallef's home than then
hospital.
When a math teacher is murdered in front of his wife,
the case takes on a whole new outlook. What is going on? As Micallef
is about to bring a possible informant in, he is shot, right in front of
her.
Midway through the story, author Inger Ash Wolfe throws
the reader a real twist in the plot. As it seems the investigation is
drawing to a successful conclusion the author sucker punches you with
another twist thereby increasing the tension.
The conclusion is surprising, yet seemingly inevitable. A very good read.
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