Paul Cleave is an award-winning author who often divides his time between his home city of Christchurch, New Zealand, where most of his novels are set, and Europe. He' s won the New Zeal and Ngaio Marsh Award three times, the Saint-Maur book festival' s crime novel of the year award in France, and has been shortlisted for the Edgar and the Barry in the US and the Ned Kelly in Australia. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He' s thrown his Frisbee in more than forty countries, plays tennis badly, golf even worse, and has two cats - which is often two too many.