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.

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 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 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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‘Cleave writes the kind of dark, intense thrillers that I never want to end’ – Simon Kernick

‘Tense, thrilling, touching. Paul Cleave is very good indeed’ – John Connolly

‘Relentlessly gripping, deliciously twisted’ – Mark Billingham

‘An intense adrenaline rush from start to finish’ – S J Watson

‘A riveting and all too realistic thriller’ – Tess Gerritsen

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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…

“Paul Cleave is an automatic must-read for me” – Lee Child

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How do you catch a killer… When the only evidence is a dream?

James Garrett was critically injured when he was shot following his parents’ execution, and no one expected him to waken from a deep, traumatic coma. When he does, nine years later, Detective Inspector Rebecca Kent is tasked with closing the case that her now retired colleague, Theodore Tate, failed to solve all those years ago.

But between that, and hunting for Copy Joe – a murderer on a spree, who’s imitating Christchurch’s most notorious serial killer – she’s going to need Tate’s help. Especially when they learn that James has lived out another life in his nine-year coma, and there are things he couldn’ t possibly know, including the fact that Copy Joe isn’ t the only serial killer in town…

”An absolute thrill ride. Precise and swift and a joy to read … storytelling at its best” – James Oswald

“Such a unique concept, with wonderful, emotional writing … I hooked on the story from the word go. BRILLIANT” – Lisa Hall

“The most original and intense thriller ever!” – Michael Wood

“I’d forgotten how good Paul Cleave is!” – Sarah Pinborough

“You can’t be a true fan of crime fiction if you’re not reading Cleave’s books” – Tom Wood

“Uses words as lethal weapons” – New York Times

“Cleave writes the kind of dark, intense thrillers that I never want to end” – Simon Kernick

“Riveting from start to finish. Smart and twisty, this book will get under your skin” – Liz Nugent

“Shocking and chilling. A literary ice plunge. I absolutely loved it” – Helen Fields

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Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful New Zealand crime writers, happily married and topping bestseller lists worldwide. They have been on the promotional circuit for years, joking that no one knows how to get away with crime like they do. After all, they write about it for a living.
So when their challenging seven-year-old son Zach disappears, the police and the public naturally wonder if they have finally decided to prove what they have been saying all this time…
Are they trying to show how they can commit the perfect crime?
Electrifying, taut and immaculately plotted, The Quiet People is a chilling, tantalizingly twisty thriller that will keep you gripped and guessing to the last explosive page.

At Jentas we have published The Quiet People in English audio, and several of his books in Danish as print, digital and audio book. The Quiet People has gotten incredible reviews!

‘A cinematic, raging, rollercoaster of a plot with a wry humour … The Quiet People is wildly entertaining and will keep you guessing right to the end’ New Zealand Herald

‘A superb novel from a champion storyteller’ Crime Watch

‘Cleave writes the kind of dark, intense thrillers that I never want to end. Do yourself a favour and check him out’ Simon Kernick

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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…

At Jentas we have published Whatever It Takes in English audio, and several of his books in Danish as print, digital and audio book. Whatever it takes has gotten incredible reviews!

“On almost every page, this outstanding psychological thriller forces the reader to reconsider what is real.”
— Publishers Weekly starred review of Trust No One

“Breaking Bad reworked by the Coen Brothers.”
— Kirkus Reviews starred review of Five Minutes Alone

“Uses words like lethal weapons.”
—New York Times

“A riveting and all too realistic thriller. Cleave is a writer to watch.”
—Tess Gerritsen, author, The Sinner

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Most of the world knows Jerry Grey by his crime-writing pseudonym, Henry Cutter – a name that’s been keeping readers at the edge of their seats for more than a decade. But now that he’s been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at the age of forty-nine, Jerry’s career is coming to an abrupt end.

His twelve books tell stories of brutal murders, of a world out of balance, of victims finding the darkest forms of justice. As his dementia continues to break down the wall between his real life and the lives of his characters, Jerry confesses his most terrible secret: the stories are real. He committed the crimes himself. His friends, family, and caretakers insist that it’s all in his head, just a side effect of the devastating disease – but is it?

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People are disappearing in Christchurch. Cooper Riley, a psychology professor, doesn’t make it to work one day. Emma Green, one of his students, doesn’t make it home. When ex-cop Theodore Tate is released from a four-month prison stint, he’s asked by Green’s father to help find Emma. After all, Tate was in jail for nearly killing her in a DUI accident the year before, so he owes him. Big time. What neither of them knows is that a former mental patient is holding people prisoner as part of his growing collection of serial killer souvenirs. Now he has acquired the ultimate collector’s item—an actual killer.

Meanwhile, clues keep pulling Tate back to Grover Hills, the mental institution that closed down three years ago. Very bad things happened there. Those who managed to survive would prefer keeping their memories buried. Tate has no choice but to unearth Grover Hills’ dark past if there is any chance of finding Emma Green and Cooper Riley alive…

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Whatever It Takes (Gotowy na wszystko) is a novel by Paul Cleave. Jentas is publishing Cleave’s books in Dutch, Polish and English.

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…

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The Killing Hour (Godzina śmierci) is a novel by Paul Cleave. Jentas is publishing Cleave’s books in Dutch, Polish and English.

Imagine waking up covered in blood – but it’s not your blood. There’s a nasty bump on your head, and you can’t remember a thing about last night. The morning paper reports that two young women were brutally murdered. You recognize their names. Pieces of the night before come back to you through the haze. And now you’re the suspect in their grisly deaths. Welcome to Charlie’s world.

In this heart-pounding thriller, only the dead know what happened last night. On the run, Charlie suspects a man named Cyris, but no one believes that Cyris exists. Not the police and not Charlie’s ex-wife Jo, though she wants to trust that the man she once loved is innocent. Soon, Charlie has Jo bound and gagged in the trunk of his car, fleeing across the countryside while the killing hour approaches yet again.

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The Cleaner (Czyściciel) is a novel by Paul Cleave. Jentas is publishing Cleave’s books in Dutch, Polish and English.

Joe is in control of everything in his simple life – both his day job as a janitor for the police department and his “night work.” He isn’t bothered by the daily news reports of the Christchurch Carver, who, they say, has murdered seven women. Joe knows, though, that the Carver killed only six. He knows that for a fact, and he’s determined to find the copycat. He’ll punish him for the one, then frame him for the other six. It’s the perfect plan because he already knows he can outwit the police.

All he needs now is to take care of all the women who keep getting in his way, including his odd, overprotective mother and Sally, the maintenance worker who sees him as a replacement for her dead brother. Then there’s the mysterious Melissa, the only woman to have ever understood him, but whose fantasies of blackmail and torture don’t have a place in Joe’s investigation.

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