THE PAIN TOURIST, by Paul Cleave (Upstart Press, $37.99)
uring the pandemic, internationally bestselling Christchurch author Paul Cleave returned to his writing roots: writing scripts for TV drama , based on his 2006 debut; and, in his 13th novel, , readers get the much-awaited return of troubled sleuth Theodore Tate (last in). However, Tate, who’s now left the police, is co-star here to James Garrett, a young man who emerges from a coma nine years after he was shot the night his parents were executed in a botched home invasion. Tate investigated the original crime, never finding the culprits.
