The Cleaner
  • Published: 5 March 2024
  • ISBN: 9781776950997
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $26.00
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The Cleaner

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5 Mar 2024
EBook
1 Mar 2012
Paperback
31 Jul 2017
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The international bestseller, now a premium Sky Originals TV series, Dark City - The Cleaner

Surprising and compelling, this powerfully written novel is a terrifyingly vivid rendering of the mind of a serial killer.

"Paul Cleave is an automatic must-read for me.” — LEE CHILD

Meet Joe. He’s a nice guy out to catch a copycat killer. The one copying himself.
Joe is in control of everything in his simple life, including both his day job at the police department and his 'night work'. He remembers to feed his fish twice a day and visit his mother at least once a week, although he occasionally peppers her coffee with rat poison.
He is not bothered by the reports of The Christchurch Carver, who - they say - murdered seven women. Joe knows the carver has killed only six. He knows that for a fact. And Joe is going to find that copycat killer, punish him for the one murder and then frame him for the rest.
It's a perfect plan because he already knows he can outwit the police. All he has to do now is take care of all the women who keep getting in his way…

The Carver Series:
Book 1: The Cleaner
Book 2: Joe Victim
  • Published: 5 March 2024
  • ISBN: 9781776950997
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $26.00
Categories:

Also by Paul Cleave

Five Minutes Alone
The Laughterhouse
Blood Men
Joe Victim
Collecting Cooper
Cemetery Lake
The Killing Hour
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Praise for The Cleaner

“...an eccentric, intriguing and rather gory story.” - Alison Pressley, Good Reading

“Cleave also has an excellent ability to keep the surprises coming as the book unfolds, and at the same time has carefully and cleverly mapped out the journey of a criminally insane mind unravelling.” - Lucy Clark, the Sunday Telegraph

"Paul Cleave... is a talent to watch" - Courier Mail 8/7/06

“It’s an exceptional debut by young New Zealand writer Paul Cleave whose concept of telling a story from a mass murderer’s viewpoint is compelling.” - Ray Chesterton, The Saturday Daily Telegraph

"Cleave's writing is uncompromising, unpredictable, and enthralling... Made me vomit - seriously, it's that good" - Jack Heath, author, THE LAB