The sins of the past revisit the present in this the fourth
of the Hazel Micallef series.
1959 Hazel is among the last people to see classmate Carol
Lim, alive in Port Dundas, Ontario. Carol’s parents report her missing and
Hazel’s adopted brother is questioned in connection with her disappearance, but
never charged.
Present day, the town is in thrall to developers, the police
service too. Hazel and her colleagues are being downsized and shoehorned into a
new shopping mall on a site locals call the lion’s paw and she isn’t happy
about it. Her mother, the former mayor of Port Dundas is ill and Hazel is
wrestling with a new case. The project
manager of a ‘luxury’ subdivision being built on the outskirts of town has been
covering up a grisly discovery; human bones found on land where the county
foster home once stood.
Amid reports of corruption and broken promises Hazel and her
colleagues investigate. They find more bones but a colleague disappears during
the search and that night a series of brutal murders begins. Determined to find her colleague, Hazel
begins to see links to her long deceased brother, her actions to clear his name
once and for all, propel her into the sights of an angry killer.
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