The Killing Hour

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As gripping as his first powerful novel, this fantastic crime and mystery novel keeps you guessing until the last page. The Killing Hour is a story that draws readers into a chilling nightmarish scenario: 'They come for me as I sleep. Their pale faces stare at... Read More
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The Killing Hour

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As gripping as his first powerful novel, this fantastic crime and mystery novel keeps you guessing until the last page.

The Killing Hour is a story that draws readers into a chilling nightmarish scenario:

'They come for me as I sleep. Their pale faces stare at me, their soft voices tell me to wake, to wake. They come to remind me of the night, to remind me of what I have done.'

The one problem is that Charlie doesn't know what he has done. His shorts are covered in blood, there's a bump on his forehead, and on the news, it says the two young women he was with the night before were brutally murdered.

Charlie knows Cyris is the murdererβ€”except the police don't believe Cyris exists. Nor does Jo, Charlie's ex-wife, to whom he goes for help. He desperately wants her to believe in him, and when she doesn't, he knows he must force her.

As Charlie goes on the run with Jo bound and gagged in the car boot, he tries to figure out whether Cyris is real or imagined, while the killing hour approaches yet again...

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780143771364

Publisher: Random House New Zealand Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 July 2017

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Bantam NZ

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 231g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Paul Cleave is an internationally bestselling author who 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. He is the author of eight novels - The Cleaner, The Killing House, Cemetery Lake, Blood Men, Collecting Cooper , The Laughterhouse, Joe Victim and Five Minutes Alone - and his work has been translated into fifteen languages. He has won the Ngaio Marsh Award for best New Zealand crime novel, he won the Saint-Maur book festival's crime novel of the year in France, has been shortlisted for the Edgar Award and the Barry Award in the US, has been shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award in Australia, and has hit the #1 spot on Amazon in three different countries. When he's not writing, he's trying to add to his list of nearly 30 countries where he's thrown his Frisbee.

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