"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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Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful crime writers. They have been on
the promotional circuit, 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 seven-year-old son Zach goes missing, 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?
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Praise for Paul Cleave
"Tense, thrilling, touching. Paul Cleave is very good indeed." --John
Connolly
"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
"Relentlessly gripping, deliciously twisted and shot through with a vein
of humour that's as dark as hell." --Mark Billingham
"Uses words as lethal weapons." --New York Times
"An intense adrenaline rush from start to finish'." --S J Watson
"A riveting and all too realistic thriller." --Tess Gerritsen
"A gripping thriller ...I couldn't put it down' Meg Gardiner
"This very clever novel did my head in time and again." --Michael
Robotham
"Cleave's whirligig plot mesmerises." --People
"This thriller is one to remember." --New York Journal of Books
"On almost every page, this outstanding psychological thriller forces
the reader to reconsider what is real." --Publishers Weekly, STARRED
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