Cemetery Lake: A Thriller (Christchurch Noir Crime Series) - Softcover

Cleave, Paul

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ISBN 10: 1451677839 ISBN 13: 9781451677836

Verlag: Atria, 2013

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"Riveting and all too realistic."--Tess Gerritsen

"An intense adrenalin rush from start to finish, I read "The Laughterhouse" in one sitting. It'll have you up all night. Fantastic!"--S.J. Watson, New York Times bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep

"Relentlessly gripping, deliciously twisted and shot through with a vein of humor that's as dark as hell. Cleave creates fictional monsters as chilling and as charming as any I've ever come across."--Mark Billingham, award-winning author of the bestselling Tom Thorne crime series

"Dark, bloody, and gripping, "Blood Men" is classic noir fiction. In Paul Cleave, Jim Thompson has another worthy heir to his throne."--John Connolly, New York Times bestselling author of The Wrath of Angels

"Paul Cleave writes the kind of dark, intense thrillers that I never want to end. Do yourself a favor and check him out."--Simon Kernick, internationally bestselling author of Siege

"Tate is hardly the first dark, brooding detective with a tragic past in crime fiction, but he brings a fresh twist to the familiar type, as does the setting of Christchurch, New Zealand, which Cleave evokes with masterful precision."

"Reminiscent of James Ellroy... [an] uncompromising portrayal of a man in torment...fully absorbing."

"Cleave is a powerful writer, conjuring a malevolent atmosphere, creating a relentless momentum propelling Tate deeper into a moral swamp.... Contemporary crime noir at its best, mined from the dark pit of the human psyche."

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A chilling case of unsolved murders and mistaken identities unravels when a lake in a Christchurch cemetery releases its grip on the murky past in this exciting crime thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Laughterhouse.

Cemetery Lake begins in a cold and rainy graveyard, where Private Detective Theodore Tate is overseeing an exhumation—a routine job for the weathered former cop. But when doubts are raised about the identity of the body found in the coffin, the case takes a sinister turn. Tate knows he should walk away and let his former colleagues on the police force deal with it, but his strong sense of justice intervenes.

Complicating matters are a few loose ends from Tate’s past. Even good guys have secrets, and Tate thought his were dead and buried for good. With time running out and a violent killer lurking, will he manage to stay one step ahead of the police, or will his truth be unearthed?

Originally published in Paul Cleave’s native New Zealand in 2008, Cemetery Lake is the first novel to feature Theodore Tate, the “quintessential flawed hero” (Kirkus Reviews) from Collecting Cooper and The Laughterhouse. Full of the clever plot twists and sardonic humor for which Cleave has become known, it is at once a totally entertaining crime novel and an unforgettable drama about the universal battle against the darkness within.

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• Verlag: Atria
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1451677839
• ISBN 13: 9781451677836
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416