Deep Death
(2026)(The seventh book in the Detective Calista Gates series)
A novel by Bernadette Calonego
A woman is standing at the very edge of a cliff. The sea roars ferociously below. Gulls' cries pierce the fog. Before the eyes of a horrified bird watcher, the woman stumbles into the abyss.
Her body is never found. Did the young mother of two really commit suicide, as the Newfoundland police initially believe?
Two months later, a second witness comes forward, only to be found dead shortly after. A newly formed police task force led by the intrepid investigator Calista Gates takes over the case. Her boss wants her to also investigate two earlier cases in which people vanished from deadly cliffs. Calista uncovers family intrigue, jealousy, and dangerous schemes—but can her special unit find evidence of murder?
Just as the task force is following a new hot lead, another person plunges off a steep cliff—at a dangerous spot Calista knows all too well.
This, the seventh case featuring investigator Calista Gates from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), is a standalone story and can be read independently of the other six volumes in Bernadette Calonego’s thrilling series.
The author Bernadette Calonego whose gripping books have appeared with the publishers 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 about this book:
"Interesting characters, a stunning setting--at some point I would like to travel myself to Newfoundland--and always a gripping story." (Martina Hammer)
"Not only the protagonists, also the investigators, especially Calista Gates, get entangled in a complex web of relations which they cannot easily escape from." (Willi Schwarzwaelder)
"The shining main 'character' is once more the breathtaking and mysterious landscape." (Anke)
"For me, Calista herself continues to be one of the great strengths of this series: professional, intuitive, vulnerable and tenacious at the same time, and empathic." (Heidelinde Penndorf)
"The writing style is fluent and wonderful to read. The story is told from multiple points of view, very diverse and suspenseful." (Gelinde)
"The description of the locations is so authentic and vivid that readers who are unfamiliar with the area can easily picture it." (Gabriele)
Genre: Mystery
Her body is never found. Did the young mother of two really commit suicide, as the Newfoundland police initially believe?
Two months later, a second witness comes forward, only to be found dead shortly after. A newly formed police task force led by the intrepid investigator Calista Gates takes over the case. Her boss wants her to also investigate two earlier cases in which people vanished from deadly cliffs. Calista uncovers family intrigue, jealousy, and dangerous schemes—but can her special unit find evidence of murder?
Just as the task force is following a new hot lead, another person plunges off a steep cliff—at a dangerous spot Calista knows all too well.
This, the seventh case featuring investigator Calista Gates from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), is a standalone story and can be read independently of the other six volumes in Bernadette Calonego’s thrilling series.
The author Bernadette Calonego whose gripping books have appeared with the publishers 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 about this book:
"Interesting characters, a stunning setting--at some point I would like to travel myself to Newfoundland--and always a gripping story." (Martina Hammer)
"Not only the protagonists, also the investigators, especially Calista Gates, get entangled in a complex web of relations which they cannot easily escape from." (Willi Schwarzwaelder)
"The shining main 'character' is once more the breathtaking and mysterious landscape." (Anke)
"For me, Calista herself continues to be one of the great strengths of this series: professional, intuitive, vulnerable and tenacious at the same time, and empathic." (Heidelinde Penndorf)
"The writing style is fluent and wonderful to read. The story is told from multiple points of view, very diverse and suspenseful." (Gelinde)
"The description of the locations is so authentic and vivid that readers who are unfamiliar with the area can easily picture it." (Gabriele)
Genre: Mystery