The Quiet People

By: Paul Cleave

Narrated by: Kris Dyer

Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's summary

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 7 year old son Zach goes missing, naturally the police and the public 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?

Paul Cleave is currently dividing his time between his home city of Christchurch, New Zealand, where all of his novels are set, and Europe, where none of his novels are set. His novels have so far been translated into 20 languages. He has won the Saint-Maur book festival's crime novel of the year, has been shortlisted for the Ned Kelly award, the Edgar Award, the Barry Award, and has won the Ngaio Marsh award three times for NZ crime fiction.

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Critic reviews

Uses words like lethal weapons.
-- New York Times

Tense, thrilling, touching. Paul Cleave is very good indeed.
-- John Connolly, NYT bestselling author

Cleave writes like the fine-tuned punches of a middleweight boxer - with short sharp jabs to the solar plexus that make you gasp. The Kiwi crime writer scores another knock-out punch with his latest novel... The pace and the carnage accelerate toward a climax lasting for several pages and leaving you breathless.
-- Courier Mail, Brisbane

So many plot twists!

A great story of the bad good guy, with a well developed characters and a plot that kept me guessing till the end!

The Quiet People

A very good book! Couldn’t put the darn thing down! Mr. Cleave has a very good way of writing about crime.

Ich liebe Paul Cleave. Und das Buch hier auch :-)

Paul Cleave hat zwei meiner absoluten Lieblingsbücher geschrieben: Joe Victim 1 + 2. Viele seiner anderen Bücher gefallen mir auch super. Er hat einen fantastisch schwarzen Humor, und ihm fallen wirklich die dollsten Dinger ein, über die ich mich kaputtlachen könnte.

Neuseeland ist mir völlig fremd. Kenne ich nur aus dem Fernsehen. Aber durch Paul Cleave habe ich das Gefühl, Christchurch zu kennen und seine Bürger, obwohl ich natürlich nie einen Fuß dorthin gesetzt habe. Ein schönes, interessantes Gefühl. Und ich freue mich immer über neue Geschichten, die wir von Paul über Christchurch geliefert bekommen.

Ich bin normalerweise kein großer Fan von Entführungs-oder Vermissten-Romanen. Mich interessiert einfach das Thema nicht. Deshalb habe ich mir erst überlegt, ob ich mir das Hörbuch zulegen soll. Jetzt bin ich aber froh darüber, denn das Schicksal der Hauptperson (Vater von Zach) hat mich sofort gefesselt und interessiert. Ich habe das Hörbuch an einem Tag durchgehört. Paul Cleave ist ein sehr guter Schriftsteller. Ich mag seinen Schreibstil und seine besonderen (und lustig-grausamen) Geschichten.

Der Sprecher ist auch ganz gut, aber ich hätte mir gewünscht, dass er ein größeres Repertoire an diversen Stimmen hätte. Die verschiedenen Personen haben sich alle irgendwie gleich angehört. Aber dennoch hat er einen guten Job gemacht.

My First Paul Cleave Book

I live in Chattanooga, Tennessee and I never even heard of Paul Cleave before, but I ran across this book in Audible and the synopsis sounded interesting so I used a credit on it. It started out somewhat slowly, to the point where I almost lost interest in it, but I had a long drive ahead of me and I thought, what the heck. Might as well finish it. I'm glad I did, because the story sure picked up speed and before I knew it I was really and truly hooked. Lots of interesting little twists along the way that keep one guessing until almost the end. Really enjoyed it, and I'll be reading more Paul Cleave books in the future! I also liked the narrator, Kris Dyer, and thought he did a fabulous job. Looking forward to hearing more from him! 😊

Started off strong...

I liked this a lot initially, but it got absolutely nuts. Probably about 250 pages too long.