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That is exactly what happened at about the 30% mark of The Pain Tourist by Paul Cleave. I think you could happily agree that it’s a mark of a good book when, as a reader, I don’t even bother to wait to get to the end of the story to head off and try and track down the author’s back titles. Many thanks to the author, courtesy of Orenda Books, and The Book Club Reviewer Request Group (FB) for my digital copy. This was a fast-moving thriller which kept me guessing throughout. There were things that James couldn’t possibly know, including the fact that Copy Joe isn’t the only serial killer in town…

He wrote about this in nine notebooks, one for every year he was in a coma. When he does, Detective Inspector Rebecca Kent is assigned to the case after DI Tate had retired and failed to solve the case.īut Kent needs Tate’s assistance while hunting for Copy Joe, who is imitating Christchurch’s most notorious New Zealand’s serial killer, Joe Middleton.īut they both learn that James had lived out another life in his nine-year coma, where his parents didn’t die, which he called “Coma World”. No one expected him to wake up from the coma. He 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.

James is rushed to the hospital where he undergoes brain surgery for his critically injury, which is touch and go. James helps his older sister, Hazel escape through the bedroom window to get help, but he is dragged downstairs to his parents, where he witnesses his parent’s execution, before he himself was shot, before the monsters escaped.ĭetectives DI Tate and DI Schroder show up at the scene. Slowly he crawls to the top of the stairs and observes three strangers, in dark clothing with ski masks, beating up his parents. Pain tourists are people who are attracted to the pain and suffering of others.Įleven -year-old James Garrett hears his parents downstairs pleading that their lives be spared.

THE PAIN TOURIST is a suspense thriller by bestselling New Zealand author Paul Cleave.