Return to Blood
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From the author of Better the Blood, the gripping second novel in a crime series starring Māori detective Hana Westerman, in which the discovery of human bones in the dunes of New Zealand upends a long-ago murder conviction
After the perils of a case that landed much too close to home, Hana Westerman turned in her badge and abandoned her career as a detective in the Auckland CIB. Hoping that civilian life will offer her the opportunity to rest and recalibrate, she returns to her hometown of Tātā Bay, where she moves back in with her beloved father, Eru. Yet the memories of the past are everywhere, and as she goes for her daily run on the beach, Hana passes a local monument to Paige, a high school classmate who was murdered more than twenty years ago and hidden in the dunes overlooking the sea. A Māori man with a previous record was convicted of the crime, although Eru never believed he was guilty.
When her daughter finds another young woman's skeleton in the sands, Hana soon finds herself awkwardly involved. Investigators suspect that this is Kiri Thomas, a young Māori woman who disappeared four years earlier, after battling years of drug addiction. Hana and her daughter Addison are increasingly captivated by the story behind this unsolved crime, but without the official police force behind her, Hana must risk compromising her own peace and relationships if justice is to be served.
Expanding the range of vivid characters who made Michael Bennett's first book, Better the Blood, so appealing, and offering a shocking twist at the end, Return to Blood takes readers further into Māori culture and traditions as it engages us more deeply into the story of Hana Westerman.
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Michael Bennett. (2024). Return to Blood. Grove Atlantic.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Michael Bennett. 2024. Return to Blood. Grove Atlantic.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Michael Bennett, Return to Blood. Grove Atlantic, 2024.
MLA Citation (style guide)Michael Bennett. Return to Blood. Grove Atlantic, 2024.
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After the perils of a case that landed much too close to home, Hana Westerman turned in her badge and abandoned her career as a detective in the Auckland CIB. Hoping that civilian life will offer her the opportunity to rest and recalibrate, she returns to her hometown of Tātā Bay, where she moves back in with her beloved father, Eru. Yet the memories of the past are everywhere, and as she goes for her daily run on the beach, Hana passes a local monument to Paige, a high school classmate who was murdered more than twenty years ago and hidden in the dunes overlooking the sea. A Māori man with a previous record was convicted of the crime, although Eru never believed he was guilty.
When her daughter finds another young woman's skeleton in the sands, Hana soon finds herself awkwardly involved. Investigators suspect that this is Kiri Thomas, a young Māori woman who disappeared four years earlier, after battling years of drug addiction. Hana and her daughter Addison are increasingly captivated by the story behind this unsolved crime, but without the official police force behind her, Hana must risk compromising her own peace and relationships if justice is to be served.
Expanding the range of vivid characters who made Michael Bennett's first book, Better the Blood, so appealing, and offering a shocking twist at the end, Return to Blood takes readers further into Māori culture and traditions as it engages us more deeply into the story of Hana Westerman.
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March 25, 2024
At the start of Bennett’s busy follow-up to 2022’s Better Than Blood, Maori detective Hana Westerman has quit the Auckland Criminal Investigation Branch to return to her rural hometown of Tata Bay and live with her father, Eru. When Hana’s 18-year-old daughter, Addison, discovers a woman’s skeleton in the sand dunes near their new home, Hana is drawn back into detective work. The deceased, Kiri Thomas, is a 17-year-old Maori woman with a history of drug addiction who went missing four years earlier. Almost immediately, Hana thinks of her high school acquaintance, Paige Meadows, who was strangled and buried in the same dunes more than 20 years ago. A Maori man was tried and convicted for Paige’s murder, but Eru always doubted the man’s guilt, and passed his skepticism on to Hana. Working as a private sleuth, Hana pokes around for potential connections between the deaths, and eventually uncovers secrets that put her directly in harm’s way. Bennett’s twists crackle, but he hampers the narrative’s pacing with an overabundance of perspective shifts. Here’s hoping the next entry marks a return to form.
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After facing down New Zealand's first serial killer (in Better the Blood, 2022), Māori detective Hana Westerman has left the Auckland force and returned home to rural Tātā Bay. She's fully occupied with helping her father revitalize their community until a picnic with her daughter ends with the discovery of a body in the dunes. Hana recognizes the signs of foul play, and soon her former boss and ex-husband, Jaye, arrives with Hana's friend, DSS Lorraine Delaney, to investigate. The victim turns out to be Kiri Thomas, a teen who was in Lorraine's Youth at Risk program until she disappeared four years ago. The MO is disturbingly similar to Tama Josephs' murder of another Tātā Bay girl fifteen years ago. However, Tama was long dead when Kiri was killed; and when a local witness opens up to her, Hana can't resist the draw to investigate. Bennett highlights Hana's struggle to reconcile the pull of her Māori roots against her inner cop, a struggle that serves as a compelling backdrop for this twisty, well-crafted mystery.COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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