The Smiling Man
A Novel
$28.90
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
4 April 2019
Summary
How do you solve the murder of a man who doesn’t exist? Detective Aidan Waits returns in a brilliantly gritty crime novel.
“Gritty as hell. I loved it. A great urban cop thriller” - Ian Rankin
From the bestselling author of Sirens, Detective Aidan Waits is on the hunt to find the identity of The Smiling Man.
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 clot…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784162191 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784162191 |
| Author: | Joseph Knox |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 4 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 314g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 31mm |
| Series: | Aidan Waits |
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Critics Review
Razor-sharp urban noir - very special indeed.
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 RankinSirens 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
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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