Bennett, Michael

This planned series-starter excels in audio, as the emotive and authentically accented narrators create an unmatched sense of place and character.

Bennett (who is Maori and of Te Arawa descent) deftly illuminates the historical plight of the Maori people and its continuing effects in New Zealand. His action-packed narrative, blended with various cultural references, recalls the novels of Tony and Anne Hillerman, Craig Johnson, and William Kent Krueger.

Important, heartening, alarming, loving, musical news for anyone who has visited a nursing home memory unit or cares for someone with impaired memory. Highly recommended for all public library teen and adult collections.