Book jacket image for Better the Blood by Michael Bennett

Atlantic Monthly

9780802160607

STARRED REVIEW

Better the Blood

A modern-day killer seeks revenge for an atrocity committed in the early days of New Zealand’s colonization in Michael Bennett’s promising debut mystery.

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