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Cold Dread
(2024)(The fifth book in the Detective Calista Gates series)
A novel by Bernadette Calonego
A brutal assault in broad daylight. Young snowmobilers stalking a polar bear discover a bloodied woman unconscious in the snow.
Calista Gates, the police chief of a remote coastal town in Newfoundland, is faced with a puzzle. Why didn`t anyone who lives nearby in the fishing cove report the incident despite having a clear view of the spot where it took place?
Two days later Calista discovers the body of a local troublemaker who hates her. Bullets are lodged between his ribs.
As if this weren’t enough, Calista’s lover, Gerald Hynes, goes missing in the freezing cold of subarctic Labrador. He was last seen around a mysterious crater where a demon is said to swallow intruders.
Beside herself with worry, Calista remembers a cold case from eight years earlier. That summer, four women trekking in the exact same area vanished without a trace. Why did Gerald go there? Are all these incidents somehow connected?
Calista, under enormous pressure, realizes too late that someone is betraying her—and it could destroy her life.
The author Bernadette Calonego whose books have appeared with Piper, Ullstein, and Edition M and have been translated into English, has lived for more than twenty years in Canada, where she has been inspired by the country’s wilderness and her expeditions to the north. The German version of her mystery novel Stormy Cove became a bestseller, and Oh, wie schön ist Kanada!, a nonfiction book about her experiences as a foreign newspaper correspondent, landed on the renowned bestseller list of the German magazine Der Spiegel.
What German readers wrote on Amazon about this mystery thriller:
“Ms. Calonego has once again admirably used her local knowledge and her feeling for the area and the people who live there to tell a strong and exciting, atmospherically dense and complex story, made up of many pieces, similar to a quilt.” (Gabriele)
“Calista Gates is a great protagonist, she is clever, courageous and authentic.” (Ledamiabook)
“I also found the plot quite excellent, plus a really harmoniously integrated arctic background with a great natural landscape.” (reader)
“The characters seem believable, lively; the motives are comprehensible. The book had captivated me from beginning to end.” (Maxim14)
“Bernadette Calonego tells an exciting and fast-paced story fluently and eloquently. The ending still holds some surprises and is completely coherent in itself.” (eiger59)
“What I personally like is the language, rich in images and precise. Not in the style of a 5th grade essay, but in the style of a writer who knows her profession.” (Eva Prinz)
“A really ice-cold story with a very specific twist that I didn't expect, but which really makes me curious to see what happens next!” (NiliBine70)
Genre: Mystery
Calista Gates, the police chief of a remote coastal town in Newfoundland, is faced with a puzzle. Why didn`t anyone who lives nearby in the fishing cove report the incident despite having a clear view of the spot where it took place?
Two days later Calista discovers the body of a local troublemaker who hates her. Bullets are lodged between his ribs.
As if this weren’t enough, Calista’s lover, Gerald Hynes, goes missing in the freezing cold of subarctic Labrador. He was last seen around a mysterious crater where a demon is said to swallow intruders.
Beside herself with worry, Calista remembers a cold case from eight years earlier. That summer, four women trekking in the exact same area vanished without a trace. Why did Gerald go there? Are all these incidents somehow connected?
Calista, under enormous pressure, realizes too late that someone is betraying her—and it could destroy her life.
The author Bernadette Calonego whose books have appeared with Piper, Ullstein, and Edition M and have been translated into English, has lived for more than twenty years in Canada, where she has been inspired by the country’s wilderness and her expeditions to the north. The German version of her mystery novel Stormy Cove became a bestseller, and Oh, wie schön ist Kanada!, a nonfiction book about her experiences as a foreign newspaper correspondent, landed on the renowned bestseller list of the German magazine Der Spiegel.
What German readers wrote on Amazon about this mystery thriller:
“Ms. Calonego has once again admirably used her local knowledge and her feeling for the area and the people who live there to tell a strong and exciting, atmospherically dense and complex story, made up of many pieces, similar to a quilt.” (Gabriele)
“Calista Gates is a great protagonist, she is clever, courageous and authentic.” (Ledamiabook)
“I also found the plot quite excellent, plus a really harmoniously integrated arctic background with a great natural landscape.” (reader)
“The characters seem believable, lively; the motives are comprehensible. The book had captivated me from beginning to end.” (Maxim14)
“Bernadette Calonego tells an exciting and fast-paced story fluently and eloquently. The ending still holds some surprises and is completely coherent in itself.” (eiger59)
“What I personally like is the language, rich in images and precise. Not in the style of a 5th grade essay, but in the style of a writer who knows her profession.” (Eva Prinz)
“A really ice-cold story with a very specific twist that I didn't expect, but which really makes me curious to see what happens next!” (NiliBine70)
Genre: Mystery
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