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 Zealands 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_____________To catch a killerMaybe you`ve got to be oneAcacia 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 consequencesA 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_____________`Uses words as lethal weapons New York TimesPraise 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