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03024aam a22003855a 4500 001 417CDF6A940511EE938C1F5A49ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231206010040 006 m o d 007 cr cn||||||||| 008 230117s2023 xxu es 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0802160611 020 $a 9780802160614 028 42 $a MWT15678452 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 082 04 $a 823/.92 $2 23/eng/20230113 100 1 $a Bennett, Michael, $d 1964- $e author. 245 10 $a Better the blood : $b a Hana Westerman thriller $h [electronic resource] / $c Michael Bennett. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b Grove Atlantic, $c 2023. 300 $a 1 online resource 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 520 $a 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 directorA 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. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 $a Murder $x Investigation $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women detectives $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Maori (New Zealand people) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Single mothers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Electronic books. 651 0 $a Auckland (N.Z.) $v Fiction. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/15672409?utm_source=MARC $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/csp_9780802160614_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20231206012218.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=417CDF6A940511EE938C1F5A49ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search