Rowena (Bookseller) read Return to Blood, another great read & quite different to the first.
After the trauma of the last case, Hana leaves the police & settles back to a coastal town with her father close by. However, a skeleton discovered in the dunes draws her back into the world she thought she wanted to leave behind.
This is a quieter story with a twist at the end I didn’t see coming. Michael has created character’s that I want to know more about... I’m hoping for another in the series.
The riveting follow-up to the acclaimed crime debut Better the Blood.
Description: Two murders. Two decades apart.
One chance to get justice.
Hana Westerman has left Auckland and her career as a detective behind her. Settled in a quiet coastal town, all she wants is a fresh start.
The discovery of a skeleton in the dunes near her house changes everything. The remains are those of a young Maori woman who went missing four years before, and Hana has a connection to the case. Twenty years ago, a schoolfriend of hers was found buried in the exact same spot. Her killer died in prison, but did the police get the wrong man? And if he was innocent, then why did he plead guilty?
No longer part of the Criminal Investigation Branch, Hana turns to her ex-husband Jaye, a high-flying Detective Inspector, for help. But when he cuts her out of the investigation, she realises that she will have to find the answers she needs on her own.
But in digging deeper, she sets herself on a potentially fatal collision course with a killer.Crime and
Mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction
Paperback
Michael Bennett
400 pages
H: 234mm W: 153mm