**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 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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`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* **