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<p><b>________</b><br><br><b>'Gritty as hell. I loved it. A great urban cop thriller</b><b>' Ian Rankin</b><br><br><b>From the bestselling author of <i>Sirens</i>, Detective Aidan Waits is on the hunt to find the identity of The Smiling Man.</b><br><b>________<br></b><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br><b>Detective Aidan Waits</b> and his unwilling partner, <b>DI Sutcliffe</b>, 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 . . . <br>________<br><br><b>'Talents such as Knox rarely emerge more than once in a generation. A crime fiction masterpiece'</b> ***** <i>Metro</i><br><br><b>'Packing a punch from the very first page. You will love <i>The Smiling Man'</i></b> Jane Harper, author of <i>The Dry</i><br><br><b>Joseph Knox's first stand-alone novel <i>True Crime Story</i> is coming 17 June 2021</b></p>