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 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 yoùve got to be one...

Acacia Pines, USA. Sheriff Cohe&ngrave;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 Cohe&ngrave;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...

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'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´ Literary Review

'A true page-turner´ Guardian

'Nerve-shredding´ Crime Monthly

'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