Wanna Be Wicked
The Peacekeeper (Good Lands, volume 1)
By B. L. Blanchard
22 Nov, 2024
Doing the WFC's Homework
B. L. Blanchard’s 2022 The Peacekeeper is the first book in the Good Lands alternate-history police-procedural series.
Twenty years ago, the village of Baawitigong was rocked by a brutal crime. Ishkode immediately confessed to his wife Neebin’s murder. The Adjudicators and Mediators assigned to the case saw no alternative but the most extreme: consigning Ishkode to prison.
Ishkode and Neebin’s children Chibenashi and Ashwiyaa were functionally orphans. Then seventeen, Chibenashi did his best to provide younger sister Ashwiyaa with a parent figure. Despite his best efforts, and those of auntie1 Meoquanee, Ashwiyaa has spent the twenty years since Neebin’s death withdrawn and dependent on Chibenashi. Consequently, Chibenashi has had to set aside all ambitions to care for his sister.
On the twentieth anniversary of Neebin’s death, Meoquanee, Neebin’s best friend and Chibenashi’s auntie, is brutally murdered. This time nobody steps forward to shoulder the blame. This time, the peacekeepers will have to solve the mystery.
Chibenashi is a peacekeeper.