Paul Cleave is an award-winning author who often divides his time between his home city of Christchurch, New Zealand, where all his novels are set, and Europe, where none of his novels are set. His works have been bestsellers that been translated into more than 20 languages and have sold over a million copies.

He has won the Ngaio Marsh Award three times, the Saint-Maur book festival’s crime novel of the year award, has been shortlisted for the Edgar, the Barry and the Ned Kelly. He’s appeared at festivals in the U.K, Turkey, France, Germany, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Taiwan, Tahiti, New Caledonia, and New Zealand.

His first published novel, The Cleaner (2006) was an international best-seller with sales exceeding 500,000. In 2024 The Cleaner was re-published alongside the release of Dark City – The Cleaner, a six-part TV series featuring an all-star Kiwi cast- the screen play also written by Paul Cleave.

Paul’s thirteenth novel The Pain Tourist (Upstart Press, 2022) is about a man who, critically injured following his parents’ murder, discovers he has lived out another life during his nine-year coma, and there are things he couldn’t possibly know

His latest work His Favourite Graves (Orenda Books, 2023) is an edge-of-your-seat, twisted and twisty thriller, in which desperate for reward money – and to rescue his marriage – an embattled sheriff takes incalculable risks to find a missing boy.

 

Links

Paul Cleave’s website

Paul on Twitter

Paul on Facebook

Read NZ Te Pou Muramura writer page

Simon & Schuster [Atria Books] author page

Wikipedia

NZ Herald article on the release of the TV drama Dark City – The Cleaner (Feb, 2024)

Radio NZ review of His Favourite Graves (Nov, 2023)

NZ Listener article on Paul winning his third Ngaio Marsh Award (Aug, 2016)

Radio New Zealand review of Trust No One (March, 2016)

NZ Booklovers review of Trust No One (Nov, 2015)

NZ Herald interview (Jan, 2015)