Spine-chiller keeps you on edge

Published date26 January 2023
By Paul Cleave, Upstart Press, $37.99

It’s essential to have your wits about you when reading Christchurch-based international bestseller Paul Cleave’s psychological thrillers.

There’s a heck of a lot to keep track of, the more so in his latest, The Pain Tourist.

The title takes its name from people he describes as “those who visit other folks’ misery”.

Plenty turn up when young James Garrett’s parents are murdered and he’s shot in what appeared to be a mistaken identity home invasion. They’re back again when James wakes from the coma he’s been in for the nine years after their deaths. Is there a killer among them?

During the time he’s been unconscious James is living in Coma World. Home is a warehouse. His very-much-alive mum and dad are there too. It’s filled with filing cabinets. What does he...

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