Paul Cleave

Photograph by Martin Hunter

About The Author

Paul Cleave is an award-winning author who often divides his time between his home city of Christchurch, New Zealand, and Europe. He’s won the New Zealand Ngaio Marsh Award three times, the Saint-Maur book festival’s crime novel of the year award in France, and has been shortlisted for the Edgar and the Barry in the US and the Ned Kelly in Australia. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. The critically acclaimed The Quiet People was published in 2021, with The Pain Tourist (2022) and His Favourite Graves following in 2023.

Books by Paul Cleave

A Killer Harvest

A Thriller

By Paul Cleave
From the Edgar-nominated author of Trust No One and Joe Victim “who uses words like lethal weapons” (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times), a thriller about a blind teenager who receives a corneal donation and begins to see and feel memories from their previous owner—a homic...
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Blood Men

A Thriller

By Paul Cleave
From international bestselling author Paul Cleave comes a gripping thriller about a dedicated family man, who may or may not have inherited his serial killer father’s penchant for violence.
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