It’s funny how a bag full of cash can spin your moral compass all over the map, and who better to understand that than Luca Carpenter?
When Luca and Katie meet on a beach in Malaysia, the attraction is immediate. What’s more, it turns out both are from New Zealand – they live only blocks from each other thousands of miles away back home . Only they’re not the only two sensing a vibe—somebody is watching them. Somebody who enjoys leaving a trail of bodies in his wake.
When the tables are turned, and Luca and Katie end up burying the man who was going to kill them, they find a bag of cash in his room. It’s a life changing amount. But with a bag of cash comes two questions. Does anything ever good come to those who take it? And is there a way to smuggle it back into New Zealand?
And, of course, with a bag of cash there’s always a given—somebody always comes looking. Sometimes a lot of somebodies…
For Luca and Katie, coming to face to face with a serial killer is the least of their problems…
PRAISE FOR PAUL CLEAVE'Cleave is an automatic must read for me' - Lee Child
'The psychological depth of the leads bolsters the complex plot. This merits comparison with the work of Patricia Highsmith' Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW
'What is really compelling about The Quiet People is neither its neat twists nor the topical examination of mob rule, but Cleave's portrait of Cameron as he goes rogue under pressure and tries to use his writer's skills to save his son' The Times
'Gripping from the first page and full of deliciously dark twists and turns' Tom Wood
'The sense of dread builds unstoppably in this gripping page-turner … an intense, chilling read' Gilly Macmillan
'I don't think I breathed from about halfway through to the end. A masterpiece from a crime genius' Susi Holliday
'His best book yet … by the end, readers will find themselves holding their breath' Bolo Books
'Uses words as lethal weapons' New York Times
'What starts out as a slow burn, quickly ratchets up the tension and the twists, sending you spiralling down a hill of depravity and desperation' Kirsten McKenzie
'Super-clever and properly gripping' The Sun
'A superb novel from a champion storyteller' Crime Watch
'Cleave writes the kind of dark, intense thrillers that I never want to end' Simon Kernick
'Tense, thrilling, touching. Paul Cleave is very good indeed' John Connolly
'Relentlessly gripping, deliciously twisted' Mark Billingham
'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
'This thriller is one to remember' New York Journal of Books
Genre: Mystery
When Luca and Katie meet on a beach in Malaysia, the attraction is immediate. What’s more, it turns out both are from New Zealand – they live only blocks from each other thousands of miles away back home . Only they’re not the only two sensing a vibe—somebody is watching them. Somebody who enjoys leaving a trail of bodies in his wake.
When the tables are turned, and Luca and Katie end up burying the man who was going to kill them, they find a bag of cash in his room. It’s a life changing amount. But with a bag of cash comes two questions. Does anything ever good come to those who take it? And is there a way to smuggle it back into New Zealand?
And, of course, with a bag of cash there’s always a given—somebody always comes looking. Sometimes a lot of somebodies…
For Luca and Katie, coming to face to face with a serial killer is the least of their problems…
PRAISE FOR PAUL CLEAVE'Cleave is an automatic must read for me' - Lee Child
'The psychological depth of the leads bolsters the complex plot. This merits comparison with the work of Patricia Highsmith' Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW
'What is really compelling about The Quiet People is neither its neat twists nor the topical examination of mob rule, but Cleave's portrait of Cameron as he goes rogue under pressure and tries to use his writer's skills to save his son' The Times
'Gripping from the first page and full of deliciously dark twists and turns' Tom Wood
'The sense of dread builds unstoppably in this gripping page-turner … an intense, chilling read' Gilly Macmillan
'I don't think I breathed from about halfway through to the end. A masterpiece from a crime genius' Susi Holliday
'His best book yet … by the end, readers will find themselves holding their breath' Bolo Books
'Uses words as lethal weapons' New York Times
'What starts out as a slow burn, quickly ratchets up the tension and the twists, sending you spiralling down a hill of depravity and desperation' Kirsten McKenzie
'Super-clever and properly gripping' The Sun
'A superb novel from a champion storyteller' Crime Watch
'Cleave writes the kind of dark, intense thrillers that I never want to end' Simon Kernick
'Tense, thrilling, touching. Paul Cleave is very good indeed' John Connolly
'Relentlessly gripping, deliciously twisted' Mark Billingham
'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
'This thriller is one to remember' New York Journal of Books
Genre: Mystery
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