Something of a Calling, (Hardcover)

<p><b>From the brilliant Zoje Stage, Bram Stoker Award finalist and author of <i>Baby Teeth</i>, <i>Something of a Calling</i> is an unsettling look at a woman--and a world--on the brink of change. This gorgeous hardcover edition includes sprayed edges. </b></p><p>Detective Andy Cooper is about to retire. She isn't sure what's next ... perhaps traveling in the RV she has yet to buy, with a dog she doesn't currently own. Perhaps gardening near the ever-shrinking patch of woods behind her house--once the cable company's backhoe is removed.</p><p>She'll need to do <i>something</i>, if only to distract herself from how empty her life has become. After the murder of her young daughter by a drunk driver. After the divorce. After the realization that all she has is her job and that she's about to lose that, too.</p><p>Everything changes when bodies begin to turn up. Murdered, but how? Not by knife, gun, or any obvious weapon. Instead: teethmarks. Chunks missing. Like they'd been chewed on. And not by humans.</p><p>As she's struggling to solve her final case, an unexpected new friendship seems like just what Andy needs. Where she is detached from life, Fiona embraces it. Where she is a homebody, Fiona roams. Yet the women are drawn together by a shared love of nature and wildlife. Until Andy learns the dark truth behind Fiona's smile. A secret that threatens to unravel the world as she knows it.</p>

• Something of a Calling, (Hardcover)
• Author: Zoje Stage
• ISBN: 9798228496903
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2026-09-15
• Page Count: 250