The Sleepwalker
$31.77
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
28 April 2020
Summary
Detective Aidan Waits has one job—to extract the location of Martin Wick’s final victim before he passes away. But Wick’s whispered final words tell of a contract killer at work, and Aidan’s name is next on the list.
‘He said he didn’t remember killing them…’
As a series of rolling blackouts plunge the city into darkness, Detective Aidan Waits sits on an abandoned hospital ward, watching a mass murderer slowly die. Transferred from his usual night shift duties and onto protect…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784162184 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784162183 |
| Author: | Joseph Knox |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 28 April 2020 |
| Weight: | 308g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Aidan Waits |
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Critics Review
‘Knox’s pitch-black novels are among crime fiction’s most compelling’
‘Knox’s pitch-black novels are among crime fiction’s most compelling’ * i *‘Fierce, funny and flint-sharp. Joseph Knox is the true grit of Brit noir’ * Cara Hunter *Dark, gritty and compelling, this will have you turning the pages until the early hours of the morning * The Independent *Oozing dread, full of surprises and with a powerful sense of outraged humanity, The Sleepwalker is Joseph Knox’s finest novel yet. * The Times *‘[An] ingenious plot … full of striking revelations’ * CrimeTime *Unrepentantly, invigoratingly dark * Sunday Express *Unflinching, fearsomely realistic, superb…The Aidan Waits series has the makings of a classic of the genre. * The Daily Mail *Knox is proving to be amongst the most pithy of British crime writers, and his exuberant novels are among the best in the current field * Barry Forshaw, The Financial Times *mesmerizing depictions of Manchester by night; a plot that is baroque in its shimmering complexity and overall, an hallucinatory power that borders on the uncanny * Irish Times *Gritty, dark, funny, and very, very good * The Sun *
About The Author
Joseph Knox
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.
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