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 Fields
‘Paul Cleave is an automatic must-read for me´
Lee Child
‘Electrifying´
Crime Monthly
magazine
‘Our sympathies to swing one way and then the other, and the final twist is clever´
Literary Review
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To catch a killer…
Maybe you've got to be one…
Acacia Pines, USA. Sheriff Cohen's 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 Luca&sgrave;s safe return.
But as the body count rises, it becomes clear that Cohen's going to have to make the kind of decision from which therès 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 Kernick
‘A 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 Nugent
‘Merits comparison with the work of Patricia Highsmith´
Publishers Weekly
‘The sense of dread builds unstoppably´
Gilly Macmillan
‘Genuinely haunting and lingers in the memory´
Daily Mail
‘Full of ideas and intelligence´
‘A true page-turner´
Guardian
‘Nerve-shredding´
‘Tense, thrilling, touching´
John Connolly
‘This very clever novel did my head in time and again´
Michael Robotham
‘This thriller is one to remember´
New York Journal of Books