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The smiling man

Knox, Joseph2018
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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 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 puts together the pieces of this stranger's life, someone is sifting through the shards of his own. When the mysterious fires, anonymous phone calls and outright threats escalate, he realises that a ghost from his own past haunts his every move. And to discover the smiling man's identity, he must finally confront his own.
Main title:
The smiling man / Joseph Knox.
Author:
Knox, Joseph, author
Imprint:
London : Doubleday, 2018.©2018
Collation:
402 pages ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
"How do you solve the murder of a man who never existed?"--cover.
ISBN:
9780857524409 (hardback)9780857524416 (paperback)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
BRN:
343574
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Brighton LibraryAdult Fiction - CrimeKNOXAvailable
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