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