Sirens

Description: It starts with the girl. How it ends is up to DC Aidan Waits. Isabelle Rossiter has run away again. When Aidan Waits, a troubled junior detective, is summoned to her father's penthouse home - he finds a manipulative man, with powerful friends. But retracing Isabelle's steps through a dark, nocturnal world, Waits finds something else. An intelligent seventeen-year-old girl who's scared to death of something. As he investigates her story, and the unsolved disappearance of a young woman just like her, he realizes Isabelle was right to run away. Soon Waits is cut loose by his superiors, stalked by an unseen killer and dangerously attracted to the wrong woman. He's out of his depth and out of time. How can he save the girl, when he can't even save himself?

Review: "Knox presents the city as pungently and uncompromisingly as Ian Rankin does Edinburgh" * Guardian * "A firecracker of a crime tale. His writing is taut, atmospheric and studded with eye-catching descriptions. An arresting new talent." * Metro * "Razor-sharp urban noir - very special indeed." -- Lee Child "Sirens is a powerhouse of noir. Joseph Knox owns Manchester and paints it in all its grimy colours." -- Val McDermid "Thrilling, breathless stuff" * Observer *



Prizes: Short-listed for CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for First Novels 2017 (UK).

Author Biography: Joseph Knox was born and raised in and around Stoke and Manchester, where he worked in bars and bookshops before moving to London. He runs, writes and reads compulsively. His debut novel Sirens was a bestseller. The Smiling Man is the second in the DC Aidan Waits series.