The Smiling Man: An Aidan Waits Crime Novel: MINT SIGNED, LINED & PUBLICATION DAY DATED FIRST EDITION with EXCLUSIVE ORANGE PAGE EDGES

Joseph Knox

ISBN 10: 0857524402 / ISBN 13: 9780857524409

Published by Doubleday, 2018

About this Item

A mint first printing with the exclusive orange page edges and illustrated end papers in a mint un-clipped dust wrapper. This unread gift condition copy is SIGNED, LINED ' Take her home and make her talk.' and Publication day DATED 8th Mar 2018 by the author to the title page. An outstanding copy with superb attributes.BOXED DESPATCH.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1521200431246

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Smiling Man: An Aidan Waits Crime Novel: MINT SIGNED, LINED & PUBLICATION DAY DATED FIRST EDITION with EXCLUSIVE ORANGE PAGE EDGES
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857524402
• ISBN 13: 9780857524409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

‘Gritty as hell. I loved it. A great urban cop thriller’ Ian Rankin

As heard on BBC Radio 5 Live Phil Williams Show

'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

From the bestselling author of Sirens, Detective Aidan Waits is on the hunt to find the identity of The Smiling Man.

Disconnected from his history and careless of his future, Detective Aidan Waits has resigned himself to the night shift: an endless cycle of meaningless emergency calls and lonely dead ends.

Until he and his partner, Detective Inspector Peter ‘Sutty’ Sutcliffe, are summoned to the Palace, a vast disused hotel in the centre of a restless, simmering city. There they find the body of a man. He is dead.

And he is smiling.

The tags have been removed from the man’s clothes. His teeth have been filed down and replaced. Even his fingertips are not his own. Only a patch sewn into the inside of his trousers gives any indication as to who he was, and to the desperate last act of his life…

But even as Waits pieces together this stranger’s identity, someone is sifting through the shards of his own.

When mysterious fires, anonymous phone calls and outright threats start to escalate, he realises that a ghost from his own past haunts his every move.

And to discover who the smiling man really is, he must first confront himself.

About the Author

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.