Collecting Cooper, Paul's fifth book, is due for release in July in the US, and November in Germany. It brings back Theodore Tate from Cemetery Lake, who is asked to look for Melissa, the character from The Cleaner.
Publishers Weekly said - "New Zealander Cleave marks the return of PI Theodore Tate, last seen in 2009's Cemetery Lake, in a pulse-pounding serial killer thriller. Soon after Tate is released after serving four months in the slammer for a drunk driving accident that seriously injured a 17-year-old girl, a former Christchurch police colleague asks him to help track a murderer known as Melissa X, who's been targeting men in uniform. Donovan Green, Tate's former lawyer, also approaches him. Donovan wants Tate to find his daughter, Emma, who happens to be the girl Tate nearly killed in the accident. Emma's disappearance is connected with the abduction of a college psychology professor of hers, Cooper Riley. 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. Cleave tosses in a number of twists that few readers will anticipate, but the book's real power lies in the complexity of its characters, particularly the emotionally tortured Tate."
To read the opening chapters of Collecting Cooper, click here
Blood Men will also be available in France from November. The Cleaner was a bestseller in France, at one point reaching #1 on the Police and Suspense charts on Amazon.fr, and selling almost 70,000 copies last year. Blood Men is also available in the US. Paul's excited to be published in the US by the same company who publish Stephen King and John Connolly, his two favourite authors. Blood Men is the story of Edward Hunter, a man growing up in the shadow of his serial killer father. With-in a day of it's release in New Zealand, it hit the Bestsellers List. Want to know more about Blood Men? Then click on the Novels page to find out!
"Compelling, dark, and perfectly paced, New Zealand writer Cleave's psychological thriller explores the evil lurking in us all, working relentless magic until the very last page." - Booklist.
Cemetery Lake also immediately hit the NZ Bestsellers List on its release in 2008. On its release in Germany in 2009, it climbed to the #2 spot on Amazon.de, falling in behind Dan Brown’s latest book, selling over 50,000 copies within its first month. It made the NZ Listener Best Books of 2008, ranked up there against the top national and international titles of the year. The Listener says
"Cleave tells the story with great flair. The
plot is beautifully constructed, the characters come to worrying
life, and it is all wrapped in an atmosphere of prevading
evil that will make you wonder whether you should be reading
it late at night..."
The
book follows Theodore Tate, a private investigator who stumbles
upon three corpses who bubble up to the surface of a small lake
inside the grounds of a cemetery, while an exhumation is taking
place. To read the opening chapter, click
here.
"While
he writes with more energy than most crime writers, Cleave operates
in a tightly proportioned mental space. Cemetery Lake is as
well organised as a Crowded House pop song, the middle section
equally unexpected and intricate." - The Australian.
Paul becomes an international bestseller!
Paul has now been signed up by New Zealand, France, Australia, Germany, Czech Republic, Russia, Poland, Japan, Turkey, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
After
it's release in Germany in April of 2007, The Cleaner sold 250,000 copies
before the end of the year, making it one of the biggest and
fastest selling debut novels ever to come out of New Zealand.
On Germany’s Amazon, it was the #1 selling crime novel
for 2007. It was the #3 biggest selling paperback for the year,
and was #10 for all books. This included an almost two month
period in the #2 position, where the only book outselling it
was the new Harry Potter. For 2007 it was #25 on the Spiegel
bestseller list, a list that encompasses over 350 bookshops
in Germany. The book is also available in Germany as an audio
download on www.audible.de
– where it also spent nearly two months as the #1 selling
audio book.
In 2007 The Cleaner made the shortlist for the Ned
Kelly Award for Best Fiction. The Ned Kelly Award is Australia's
crime writing award given yearly to recognize outstanding Australian
writing. The Cleaner originally made the long list for two categories
- Best Fiction and Best First Fiction. In 2006, The Cleaner
made the 'NZ Listener Best Books' and was the only NZ crime
novel to make the list amongst stiff international competition
for the year.
The
reviews are in!
All of Paul's books have both been released to outstanding reviews.
Germany’s NDR Radio, one of the biggest stations in the
country, have called him ‘The
next Stephen King’. Tess Gerritsen has said
‘Cleave is a writer to watch’.
The NZ Listener said ‘Cleave
... has an energy that conventional crime novels lack’.
To see what the newspapers and magazines are saying, click
here.
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