Do yourself a favour and check him out,' and S.J Watson said 'An intense adrenalin rush from start to finish. The Lab's John Heath calls Cleave's writing 'uncompromising, unpredictable, and enthralling', adding, 'Made me vomit - seriously, it's that good.' Simon Kernick said 'Cleave writes the kind of dark, intense thrillers that I never like to finish. classic noir fiction', and said that in Paul Cleave 'Jim Thompson has another worthy heir to his throne'.

I came back raving about Paul Cleave.' John Connolly called Blood Men 'dark, bloody, and gripping. the book's real power lies in the complexity of its characters,', andĬleave numbers among his fans top crime and thriller writers such as Mark Billingham, who wrote: 'Most people come back from New Zealand talking about the breathtaking scenery and the amazing experiences. 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 have said 'a pulse-pounding serial killer thriller. The New Zealand Listener said that Cleave writes with 'an energy that conventional crime novels lack', and he has been called 'the next Stephen King', 'a rising star of the genre' and 'a writer to watch'. He has won the Saint-Maur book festival's crime novel of the year in France, has been shortlisted for the Ned Kelly award, the Edgar Award, the Barry Award, and has won the Ngaio Marsh award for NZ crime fiction. His eight novels have so far been translated into over a dozen languages and nearly 20 territories. Paul Cleave is currently dividing his time between his home city of Christchurch, New Zealand, where all of his novels are set, and Europe, where none of his novels are set.

A killer harvest by paul cleave