The Long Way Down
The fall was an accident. Everything before it was murder. And the dead won't let her forget.
$31.19
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2027
Summary
From three-time Ngaio Marsh Award-winning author Michael Bennett comes a gripping new stand-alone crime thriller where the official story says accident – but the dead say otherwise.
Chloe is about to have the worst day of her life.
A rookie cop in Sydney, she responds to a call-out on a housing estate: reports of a gunman, a building in lockdown, backup still minutes away. Going in alone, Chloe is pulled upwards – floor by floor – until she re…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781398536845 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1398536849 |
| Author: | Michael Bennett |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 153mm x 234mm |
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Michael Bennett
Michael Bennett (Ngati Pikiao, Ngati Whakaue) is an award-winning screenwriter, director, and author.
His first book, a non-fiction work telling the true story of New Zealand’s worst miscarriage of justice, In Dark Places, won Best Non-Fiction Book at the 2017 Ngaio Marsh Awards. Michael’s second book, Helen and the Go-Go Ninjas, is a time-travel graphic novel co-authored with Ant Sang.
Better the Blood, the first Hana Westerman thriller, was shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction/Ockham New Zealand Book Award, as well as for the Audio Book of the Year at the Capital Crime Fingerprint Awards and Best First Mystery Novel at the Barry Awards. It was also longlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Debut Dagger and was a finalist for Best Novel at the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Awards, where it won the award for Best First Novel. Return to Blood, the second novel in the acclaimed series, won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel in 2025.
Michael’s short and feature films have won awards internationally and have screened at numerous festivals, including Cannes, Toronto, Berlin, Locarno, New York, London, and Melbourne. Michael is the 2020 recipient of the Te Aupounamu Māori Screen Excellence Award, in recognition of members of the Māori filmmaking community who have made high-level contributions to screen storytelling.
He lives in Auckland, Aotearoa (New Zealand), with his partner Jane, and children Tihema, Mahina, and Matariki.
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