The The Quiet People: The nerve-shredding, twisty MUST-READ bestseller
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4.3 • 78 Ratings
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Publisher Description
"A cinematic, raging, rollercoaster of a plot with a wry humour ... The Quiet People is wildly entertaining and will keep you guessing right to the end." —New Zealand Herald
"A superb novel from a champion storyteller." —Crime Watch
"Cleave writes the kind of dark, intense thrillers that I never want to end. Do yourself a favour and check him out." —Simon Kernick
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Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful crime writers. They have been on the promotional circuit, joking that no one knows how to get away with crime like they do. After all, they write about it for a living.
So when their seven-year-old son Zach goes missing, the police and the public naturally wonder if they have finally decided to prove what they have been saying all this time...
Are they trying to show how they can commit the perfect crime?
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Praise for Paul Cleave
"Tense, thrilling, touching. Paul Cleave is very good indeed." —John Connolly
"Compelling, dark, and perfectly paced, New Zealand writer Cleave's psychological thriller explores the evil lurking in us all, working relentless magic until the very last page." —Booklist
"Relentlessly gripping, deliciously twisted and shot through with a vein of humour that's as dark as hell." —Mark Billingham
"Uses words as lethal weapons." —New York Times
"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
"Cleave's whirligig plot mesmerises." —People
"This thriller is one to remember." —New York Journal of Books
"On almost every page, this outstanding psychological thriller forces the reader to reconsider what is real." —Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Writers Cameron and Lisa Murdoch, the couple at the center of this superior thriller set in Christchurch, New Zealand, from Cleave (Whatever It Takes), have jokingly boasted that they'd be able to outsmart the police, based on their cleverness in plotting bestselling crime fiction. Then their seven-year-old son, Zach, whose problems dealing with frustration make him a handful, goes missing the morning after he said he planned to run away. The Murdochs call the police, but the authorities soon come to believe that the disappearance was involuntary, and Cameron and Lisa become suspected of killing their child, who was both a financial and emotional burden. The pressures increase when a disgraced journalist and would-be novelist, who once accused the Murdochs of stealing a story line, goes public with allegations that Cameron abused Zach and out-of-context video interview clips that present the two as conscienceless fiends. Sections from Cameron's perspective humanize him even as Cleave keeps readers guessing as to the Murdochs' culpability and Zach's fate. The psychological depth of the leads bolsters the complex plot. This merits comparison with the work of Patricia Highsmith.
Customer Reviews
Long but worth it
This quintessential mystery accelerated at every turn, but it was still so long that 2/3 through, I jumped to the ending, then I jumped right back to where I’d left off. Clearly, I’d missed the really good stuff! It’s a great read, my first by this author — and upon finishing it ( the second time) I Downloaded another by the same author.
Noisy Story
Characters are flat, plot is ingenious and thrilling, but ultimately contrived.
Great book
This books grabs you from the beginning and never lets go… It tore at my heart numerous times… The twists and turns it takes are unending… It keeps you guessing right up to the end…