# The Quiet People: the Nerve-Shredding, Twisty MUST-READ Bestseller

"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

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- **Vendor:** Orenda Books
- **Type:** Paul Cleave

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