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Cargando... Better the Bloodpor Michael Bennett
   Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  MYvos | Oct 14, 2023 |    ) Smith.erin71 | Oct 3, 2023 | ) ZachMontana | Aug 17, 2023 | DSS Westerman soon realises their is a personal connection to the perpetrator, her beloved daughter and ex-husband. My only reservation is that I felt, at times, that I was being brow beaten as New Zealander of European descent. The ending showed more balance however. (  ) HelenBaker | Mar 27, 2023 |  ) bookappeal | Mar 11, 2023 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: An absorbing, clever debut thriller that speaks to the longstanding injustices faced by New Zealand's indigenous peoples, by an acclaimed Māori screenwriter and director A tenacious Māori 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 Māori Chief. Hana realizes that the murders are utu??the Māori 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 fi No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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5 stars for the way Maori heritage was written. From the cruel, bloody colonial era to the unfair, complex struggles 21st century Maori have to live with, the entire book was filled with what this means for the people involved.
There is no black and white, only the painful reality that Maori people still struggle. Hana is not a truly sympathetic main character and the killer is not a cold-blooded monster. Everyone deals with this differently, from Hana to the killer, and the shared heritage caused different life decisions in different people. (