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Michael Bennett : Better The Blood

Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2023

ISBN 9780802160607

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. CX4 - A first American edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED and dated by Michael Bennett on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling on the edges and corners, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. A Hana Westerman Thriller. An absorbing, clever debut thriller that speaks to the longstanding injustices faced by New Zealand's indigenous peoples, by an acclaimed M?ori screenwriter and director. 9.5"x6.5", 329 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. A tenacious M?ori 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 M?ori Chief. Hana realizes that the murders are utu - the M?ori 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 Zealand's 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 Hana's own family. Twisty and thought-provoking, Better the Blood is the debut of a remarkable new talent in crime fiction.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

First American Edition
Signed by Author