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'Gritty as hell. I loved it. A great urban cop thriller' Ian Rankin
As heard on BBC Radio 5 Live Phil Williams Show
From the bestselling author of Sirens, Detective Aidan Waits is on the hunt to find the identity of The Smiling Man.
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A body has been found on the fourth floor of Manchester's vast and empty Palace Hotel. The man is dead. And he is smiling.
The tags have been removed from his clothes. His teeth have been replaced. Even his fingertips are not his own. Only a patch sewn into his trousers offers any information about him.
Detective Aidan Waits and his unwilling partner, DI Sutcliffe, must piece together the scant clues to identify the stranger. But as they do, Aidan realises that a ghost from his past haunts the investigation. He soon recognises that to discover who the smiling man really is, he must first confront the scattered debris of his own life . . .
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'Talents such as Knox rarely emerge more than once in a generation. A crime fiction masterpiece' ***** Metro
'Packing a punch from the very first page. You will love The Smiling Man' Jane Harper, author of The Dry
Rezensionen / Stimmen
If you liked Sirens, you will love The Smiling Man. Gritty, noir, and packing a punch from the very first page. * Jane Harper, author of The Dry * Gritty as hell. I loved it! A great urban cop thriller -- Ian Rankin Sirens was one of the best books published last year and this intense, blackly comic follow-up is just as good. Joseph Knox has conjured up a sense of evil and corruption you can almost smell it. -- Jake Kerridge * Sunday Express * Imperfect as Aidan Waits is, the Manchester DC is the shining light in a world peopled by the worst kinds of bad people. This is Knox's second Waits book in what holds the promise of a classic series. * Sunday Times Crime Club * Talents such as Knox rarely emerge more than once in a generation. A crime fiction masterpiece * Metro * If you like your crime fiction dark, gritty an contemporary, then Joseph Knox's latest novel is for you . . . dripping with dark humour, written with style, a dark and engrossing ride through the mean streets of Manchester -- Clair Woodward * Daily Express * Promises to be a classic series * Guardian * Although nominally a police procedural, The Smiling Man has the sense of place and vivid atmosphere of a classic PI novel. .. Stylish, intelligent and full of heart, Joseph Knox is the best thing to have happened to English crime fiction in years. * Irish Times * You can trace Aidan Waits's lineage direct from Marlowe through Bosch and Rebus - maverick sleuth with a savagely poetic turn of phrase that packs serious observation of the human condition under the laughs - though Waits has the self-sabotage knob turned up to 11. Imperfect as he is, the Manchester DC is the shining light in a world peopled by the worst kinds of bad people. This is Knox's second Waits book in what holds the promise of a classic series. * Sunday Times Crime Club * Razor-sharp urban noir - very special indeed. -- Lee Child
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Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 132 mm
Dicke: 32 mm
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978-1-78416-219-1 (9781784162191)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Joseph Knox has lived in Stoke on Trent, Manchester and London. In 2020, he became an Irish citizen. His debut novel Sirens was a bestseller and has been translated into eighteen languages. The Smiling Man and The Sleepwalker are the second and third books in the Waits trilogy. His first standalone novel, True Crime Story, was a Times number one bestseller.
