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Book SynopsisFrom the international bestselling author comes yet another gripping novel that paints a brutally vivid picture of a killer''s mind. An edge-of-your-seat thriller, for fans of Lee Child and Peter May.
''A pulse-pounding serial killer thriller'' Publishers Weekly
''Cleave uses words like lethal weapons'' New York Times Book Review
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
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A pulse-pounding serial killer thriller ... The city of Christchurch becomes a modern equivalent of James Ellroy's Los Angeles of the 1950s, a discordant symphony of violence and human weakness * Publishers Weekly (starred) *
Paul Cleave writes the kind of dark, intense thrillers that I never want to end. Do yourself a favour and check him out -- Simon Kernick
Horrormeister Cleave ... will scare you to death, or at least to the point of keeping a night light on * Kirkus Reviews *
Collecting Cooper roars on at breakneck speed, pitting not two but three deadly adversaries against an inexorably ticking clock * BookPage *
The cynical, ambiguous conclusion to this wild, violent romp really makes you wonder about Cleave. And his fans ... and me. I couldn't put it down * Mystery Scene Magazine *
Cleave leads us on a tantalizing, mouth-watering spectre of horror, never knowing what will be revealed around the next corner, or turning of a page. This is one in a series of novels centered on Detective Tate and he withholds just enough to make you want to get that next book now! * Suspense Magazine *
