His Favourite Graves

Desperate for reward money - and to rescue his marriage - an embattled sheriff takes incalculable risks to find a missing boy. An edge-of-your-seat, twisted and twisty thriller from New Zealand s King of Crime. Moves at a furious pace, even as the walls close in ... everything you want from a thriller and it leaves you gasping Helen FieldsPaul Cleave is an automatic must-read for me Lee Child Electrifying Crime Monthly magazineOur sympathies to swing one way and then the other, and the final twist is clever Literary Review _ To catch a killer... Maybe youve got to be one... Acacia Pines, USA. Sheriff Cohens life is falling apart - his father accidentally burned down the retirement home, his wife has moved out, and his son is bullying other kids at school. When high-school student, Lucas Connor, is abducted, Cohen sees a chance to get his life back on track - to win back his wife and scoop the reward money offered for Lucass safe return. But as the body count rises, it becomes clear that Cohens going to have to make the kind of decision from which theres no coming back ... a decision with deadly consequences... A furiously paced, edge-of-your-seat thriller exposing the dark underbelly of small-town life, His Favourite Graves is also a twisted and twisty story of father-and-son relationships, and the one last gamble of a desperate man to save everything... _____________Uses words as lethal weapons New York Times Praise for Paul Cleave Cleave writes the kind of dark, intense thrillers that I never want to end Simon KernickA true page-turner filled with dread, rage, doubt and more twists than the Remutaka Pass Linwood Barclay Smart and twisty, this book will get under your skin Liz NugentMerits comparison with the work of Patricia Highsmith Publishers Weekly The sense of dread builds unstoppably Gilly MacmillanGenuinely haunting and lingers in the memory Daily Mail Full of ideas and intelligence Literary ReviewA true page-turner Guardian Nerve-shredding Crime MonthlyTense, thrilling, touching John Connolly This very clever novel did my head in time and again Michael RobothamThis thriller is one to remember New York Journal of Books

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Paul Cleave is an award-winning author who often divides his time between his home city of Christchurch, New Zealand, where most of his novels are set, and Europe. He's won the New Zealand Ngaio Marsh Award three times, the Saint-Maur book festival's crime novel of the year award in France, and has been shortlisted for the Edgar and the Barry in the US and the Ned Kelly in Australia. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He's thrown his Frisbee in more than forty countries, plays tennis badly, golf even worse, and has two cats - which is often two too many. The critically acclaimed The Quiet People was published in 2021, with The Pain Tourist following in 2022.