'A compelling, atmospheric page turner with an authentic insight into Māori culture' Val McDermid
A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH.
A KILLER IN SEARCH OF RETRIBUTION.
A CLASH BETWEEN CULTURE AND DUTY.
THE PAST NEVER TRULY STAYS BURIED.
WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE OF PARADISE.
Detective Senior Sergeant Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single motherhood and the pressures of her career in Auckland’s Central Investigation Branch. When she’s led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man hanging in a hidden room. With little to go on, Hana knows one thing: the killer is sending her a message.
As a Māori officer, there has always been a clash between duty and culture for Hana, but it is something that she’s found a way to live with. Until now. When more murders follow, Hana realises that her heritage and past are the keys to finding the perpetrator.
Especially when the killer's agenda of revenge may include Hana – and her family . . .
‘As page-turning as it is eye-opening’ Ambrose Parry
‘A remarkable new detective’ Daily Mail
‘[A] highly addictive read’ My Weekly
‘So chilling’ Crime Monthly
‘Opens a unique window onto a fascinating Antipodean society as only world-class crime fiction can’ Deon Meyer
Winner of the Best First Novel Award at the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Awards
Finalist for Best Novel at the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Awards
Shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Longlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger
Shortlisted for Audio Book of the Year at the Capital Crime Fingerprint Awards
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Better the Blood
The past never truly stays buried. Welcome to the dark side of paradise.
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eBook - ePub
Better the Blood
The past never truly stays buried. Welcome to the dark side of paradise.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Chapter 1: A Smudge on the Page of History
- Chapter 2: Hana
- Chapter 3: Brown and Screaming
- Chapter 4: The Last Flat on the Second Floor
- Chapter 5: The Message
- Chapter 6: A Downwind Position
- Chapter 7: Nothingness
- Chapter 8: The Tipping Point
- Chapter 9: Here Shows Much Amiss
- Chapter 10: Carved into Skin
- Chapter 11: Lines of Descent
- Chapter 12: We Will Meet Again
- Chapter 13: Fire and Smoke
- Chapter 14: Car Wash
- Chapter 15: The Screaming Boy
- Chapter 16: Number Four
- Chapter 17: Wild Things
- Chapter 18: The Wrong Question
- Chapter 19: Are You Okay?
- Chapter 20: Do Not Bury Me in the Earth
- Chapter 21: Duty
- Chapter 22: On Which Side Lies Evil?
- Chapter 23: The End of the Strut
- Chapter 24: Footsteps
- Chapter 25: The Cave
- Chapter 26: The Rattling of Bones
- Chapter 27: Hūmārie, Aroha, Manaaki
- Chapter 28: Tell Me What I Have to Do
- Chapter 29: The Sacred Mountain
- Chapter 30: Water
- Addendum: Hana Westerman’s Tāmaki Makaurau
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Copyright
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