Hounds of the Underworld
by Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2017)
An understated but engrossing SF murder mystery set in rundown near-future New Zealand. What starts as a character study—pairing up and alternating between Penny, a straight-laced scientific consultant, and Matiu, her dissident brother, both of Chinese-Maori descent—blossoms into supernatural horror.