An absorbing, clever debut thriller that speaks to the longstanding injustices faced by New Zealands indigenous peoples, by an acclaimed Mori screenwriter and director A tenacious Mori detective, Hana Westerman juggles single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man ritualistically hanging in a secret room and a puzzling inward-curving inscription. Delving into the investigation after a second, apparently unrelated, death, she uncovers a chilling connection to an historic crime: 160 years before, during the brutal and bloody British colonization of New Zealand, a troop of colonial soldiers unjustly executed a Mori Chief. Hana realizes that the murders are ututhe Mori tradition of rebalancing for the crime committed eight generations ago. There were six soldiers in the British troop, and since descendants of two of the soldiers have been killed, four more potential murders remain. Hana is thus hunting New Zealands first serial killer. The pursuit soon becomes frighteningly personal, recalling the painful event, two decades before, when Hana, then a new cop, was part of a police team sent to end by force a land rights occupation by indigenous peoples on the same ancestral mountain where the Chief was killed, calling once more into question her loyalty to her roots. Worse still, a genealogical link to the British soldiers brings the case terrifyingly close to Hanas own family. Twisty and thought-provoking, Better the Blood is the debut of a remarkable new talent in crime fiction.
Better the Blood: A Hana Westerman Thriller (A Hana Westerman Thriller, 1)
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Better the Blood: A Hana Westerman Thriller (A Hana Westerman Thriller, 1)
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- Publication Date:
- 1/10/2023
- Release Date:
- 1/10/2023
- Author:
- Bennett, Michael
- Language:
- English: Published; English: Original Language; English
- Pages:
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