The Pain Tourist

Paul Cleave

Feb 2023 · Jentas · Narrated by Kris Dyer

About this audiobook

A young man wakes from a coma to find himself targeted by the men who killed his parents, while someone is impersonating a notorious New Zealand serial killer ... the latest chilling, nerve-shredding, twisty thriller from the author of The Quiet People...

"Paul Cleave is an automatic must-read for me" - Lee Child

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How do you catch a killer... When the only evidence is a dream?

James Garrett was critically injured when he was shot following his parents' execution, and no one expected him to waken from a deep, traumatic coma. When he does, nine years later, Detective Inspector Rebecca Kent is tasked with closing the case that her now retired colleague, Theodore Tate, failed to solve all those years ago.

But between that, and hunting for Copy Joe – a murderer on a spree, who's imitating Christchurch's most notorious serial killer – she's going to need Tate's help. Especially when they learn that James has lived out another life in his nine-year coma, and there are things he couldn' t possibly know, including the fact that Copy Joe isn' t the only serial killer in town...

About the author

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.
On top of praise from the press -"the next Stephen King," "uses words as lethal weapons," "a writer to watch," and "a rising star in the genre" - Cleave numbers among his fans top crime and thriller writers.