October Book Club: Better the Blood
For October, we’ll meet on zoom on Sunday, October 20 at 2 p.m., and we’ll be on zoom only until spring. We’ll be reading Michael Bennett’s terrific debut, Better the Blood. Anyone is welcome to join, just message us on facebook or email us at store (at) auntagathas.com. My review of the book:
Great debut novel introducing New Zealand detective Hana Westerman. She’s caught a series of gruesome murders which eventually become linked, and she’s caught them through her own excellent detail work at the crime scenes. Hana is a Maori, a single mother, and interestingly, an artist who likes to make drawings at crime scenes and autopsies (sometimes to the annoyance of the professionals involved). Her daughter is a rebellious 17 year old and her ex is also a police, remarried, with a new family. The author lays in this ground work of her character really nicely and without getting in the way of the story.