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.

Lynch arrives in London, looking over his shoulder for a past he cannot escape. His phone is dead, he has no money, no contacts. He is alone. Until he runs into a wealthy young woman, Bobbie Pierce, who mistakes him for her brother, Heydon, who disappeared 5 years ago without a trace. The resemblance is striking. Or so she says.At her suggestion, Lynch goes to the luxurious Pierce family home, posing as Heydon to try and con some money out of them. But far from succeeding, his subterfuge is instantly discovered, forcing him into a devil¿s bargain ¿ their silence for his cooperation in finding out what really happened to Heydon.But Lynch¿s investigation goes too deep and soon reveals the dark world in which Heydon Pierce was immersed - and the dangerous and powerful people who hunt there. It seems that everyone has good reasons to keep Heydon buried in the past. In such a conspiracy of mirrors, just one thing is certain: the only person he can trust is himself.Like its award-winning predecessor, True Crime Story, Imposter Syndrome takes the reader on a dizzying journey into a landscape where the difference between fact and fiction is almost impossible to distinguish. It thrillingly confirms Joseph Knox as one of the most innovative and daring of the UK¿s contemporary crime writers.

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.