Paul Cleave is an award-winning author who often divides his time between his home city of Christchurch, New Zealand, where his novels are set, and Europe, where none of his novels are set. His books have been translated into twenty languages. He's won the Ngaio Marsh Award three times, the Saint-Maur book festival's crime novel of the year award, and has been shortlisted for the Edgar and the Barry and the Ned Kelly. He's thrown his Frisbee in over forty countries, plays tennis badly, golfs even worse, and has two cats--which is often two too many. Whatever it Takes, his eleventh novel and his first set outside of New Zealand, was released in July 2019.