Bøker av Joseph Knox

What happens to the Zoe Nolans of the world?' In the early hours of Saturday, December 17th, 2011, Zoe Nolan, a 19-year-old Manchester University student, walked out of a party taking place in the shared accommodation where she had been living for three months.

'When you're living a lie, you find it's best to avoid close attachments...'Lynch, a burned out con-artist, arrives, broke, in London, trying not to dwell on the mistakes that got him there. When he bumps into Bobbie, a rehab-bound heiress - and when she briefly mistakes him for her missing brother - Lynch senses the opportunity, as well as the danger...Bobbie's brother, Heydon, was a troubled young man. Five years ago, he walked out of the family home and never went back. His car was found parked on a bridge overlooking the Thames, in the early hours of the same morning. Unsettled by Bobbie's story, and suffering from a rare attack of conscience, Lynch tries to back off.But when Bobbie leaves for rehab the following day, he finds himself drawn to her luxurious family home, and into a meeting with her mother, the formidable Miranda. Seeing the same resemblance that her daughter did, Miranda proposes she hire Lynch to assume her son's identity, in a last-ditch effort to try and flush out his killer.As Lynch begins to impersonate him, dark forces are lured out of the shadows, and he realises too late that Heydon wasn't paranoid at all. Someone was watching his every move, and they'll kill to keep it a secret.For the first time, Lynch is in a life or death situation he can't lie his way out of.

Joseph Knox er hovedinnkjøper av krim for bokkjeden Waterstones i England, og i kaffepausene på jobben, i helger og ferier har han skrevet den første boken i det han selv sier skal bli en serie om politietterforskeren Aidan Waits i Manchester. Første bok ut er Sirenene og her er Aidan suspendert fra jobben, men blir på uortodoks vis hanket inn av sjefen for å gjøre et undercoveoppdrag og helst få dattera til en minister ut av narkoreiret hun har slått seg ned i og hjem til familien. Samtidig er det akkurat ti år siden en av kurérene (de blir kalt sirener) til narkobaronen forsvant fra et av politiets 'safe houses' etter at hun hadde gått med på å vitne. Og Aidan vikles motvillig inn i også denne saken. «Sirenene er en noir kraftpakke. Joseph Knox eier Manchester og maler byen i alle dens grimmeste farger.» Val McDermid«Knivskarp urban noir - noe helt for seg selv.» Lee Child

When Aidan Waits, a troubled junior detective, is summoned to her father's penthouse home - he finds a manipulative man, with powerful friends. As he investigates her story, and the unsolved disappearance of a young woman just like her, he realizes Isabelle was right to run away.