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Author: Cleave, Paul
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Published on 9 November 2023 by Orenda Books in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 304 pages
128 x 199 x 21 | 212g
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 everythingyou want from a thriller and it leaves you gasping Helen Fields 'Uses words as lethal weapons'New York Times 'Paul Cleave is an automatic must-read for me'Lee Child To catch a killerMaybe 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 Lucas'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 there's 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 Gravesis also a twisted and twisty story of father-and-son relationships, and the one last gamble of a desperate man to save everything 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
