Better the Blood

Better the Blood
Michael Bennett
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NZ$ 45.00
Hardback
h234 x 153mm - 336pg
18 Aug 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781398512214
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A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Hana Westerman is a tenacious Ma-ori 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 secret room. As Hana and her team work to track down the killer, other deaths lead her to think that they are searching for New Zealand' s first serial killer. A KILLER IN SEARCH OF RETRIBUTION With little to go on, Hana must use all her experience as a police officer to try and find a motive to these apparently unrelated murders. What she eventually discovers is a link to an historic crime that leads back to the brutal bloody colonisation of New Zealand. A CLASH BETWEEN CULTURE AND DUTY When the pursuit becomes frighteningly personal, Hana realises that her heritage and knowledge is their only key to finding the killer. THE PAST NEVER TRULY STAYS BURIED But as the murders continue, it seems that the killer' s agenda of revenge may include Hana - and her family . . . WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE OF PARADISE.
Michael Bennett (Ngati Pikiao, Ngati Whakaue) is an award-winning New Zealand screenwriter and author whose films have been selected for numerous festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Toronto and New York. In 2008 Michael was the inaugural recipient of the Writers Award from the New Zealand Film Commission, and in 2005 he was awarded the British Council/New Zealand Writers Foundation Award. In 2011 Michael's feature film Matariki won Best Feature Film Screenplay at the New Zealand Screenwriting Awards, and in 2013 he was awarded Best Documentary Screenplay for his documentary on the Teina Pora case, The Confessions of Prisoner T. He went on to publish In Dark Places in 2016, which won Best Non-Fiction Book at the Ngaio Marsh Awards and Best Biography/History at the Nga Kupu Ora Awards 2017. Michael lives in Auckland, New Zealand, and is Head of Screenwriting at South Seas Film School.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781398512214
Published: 18 Aug 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Spine: 24mm
Pages: 336

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