Paul Cleave is een internationaal bestsellerauteur wiens romans zich allemaal afspelen in zijn thuisstad Christchurch, Nieuw-Zeeland. Zijn meeslepende thrillers kenmerken zich door een duistere sfeer en onverwachte wendingen die lezers in psychologische spanning onderdompelen. Cleave verkent meesterlijk de donkere kanten van de menselijke natuur en de morele dilemma's van zijn personages. Zijn vermogen om onrustige maar boeiende verhalen te creëren, maakt hem een onderscheidende stem in het thrillergenre.
A young man wakes from a coma to find himself targeted by the men who killed his parents, while someone is impersonating a notorious New Zealand serial killer ... the latest chilling, nerve-shredding, twisty thriller from the author of The Quiet People
In the latest thriller by the Edgar-nominated author of Joe Victim, someone is helping rape victims exact revenge on their attackers, prompting an edge-of- your-seat, cat-and-mouse chase between old friends, detectives Theodore Tate and Carl Schroder.
After a corneal donation, a blind teenager begins to see and feel memories from their previous owner - a homicide detective who was also his father.
When seven-year-old Alyssa is kidnapped, Deputy Noah Harper decides he will do what it takes to find her - but that means crossing lines he can never come back from. Finding the girl safe isn't enough to stop Noah from losing his job, his wife, and from being kicked out of Acacia Pines. He's told if he ever returns, he'll be put in jail and left there to rot. Now, 12 years later, comes a phone call. Alyssa is missing again and her father wants him to honour the promise he made to her all those years earlier - that he would never let anything bad happen to her again. To find her, Noah is going to have to head back to the pines, and come face to face with the past... You shouldn't miss Paul Cleave's newest and best thriller yet Fans of Paul Cleave agree about his writing: "Readers following him through this season of Breaking Bad reworked by the Coen Brothers will feel the whole gamut right along with him."-- Kirkus " He] juggles all the elements with impressive ease. Darkly humorous references to horrific violence will resonate with Dexter fans."- Publishers Weekly - Starred Review "Tense, thrilling, touching. Paul Cleave is very good indeed." -- John Connolly, NYT bestselling author "A riveting and all too realistic thriller. Cleave is a writer to watch."- Tess Gerritsen, NYT bestselling author
Suspicion is cast on two successful crime writers when their seven-year-old son goes missing. Are they trying to show that they can commit the perfect crime? A mesmerisingly twisty, dark thriller from number-one bestselling author Paul Cleave...
From the international bestselling author of Blood Men comes yet another gripping thriller that paints a brutally vivid picture of a killer's mind.
Fast-paced, dark, and intensely clever, this exciting thriller represents a brilliant new chapter in the career of world-class crime writer Paul Cleave.
Exploring the psychological tension between family legacy and personal identity, this gripping thriller follows a devoted family man grappling with the possibility of inheriting his father's violent tendencies. As he navigates his relationships and confronts his past, the story delves into themes of nature versus nurture, raising questions about morality and the darkness that can lurk within. The narrative promises suspense and unexpected twists, keeping readers on the edge of their seats.
Edward Hunter has it all a beautiful wife and daughter, a great job, a bright future? and a very dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer was caught, convicted, and locked away in the country's most hellish of penitentiaries. That man was Edward's father. Edward has struggled his entire life to put the nightmares of his childhood behind him. But a week before Christmas, violence once again makes an unwelcome appearance into his world. Suddenly he's going to need the help of his father, a man he hasn't seen since he was a boy. Is Edward destined to be just like him, to become a man of blood? Blood Men is “relentlessly gripping, deliciously twisted, and shot through with a vein of humor that's as dark as hell” (Mark Billingham). A true master of the genre that only comes along once in a generation, Cleave unveils a brutally vivid picture of a killer's mind and of a city of fallen angels captured at the ends of the earth.
