Shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2017.
Justifiably already highly-praised, this debut by a young Manchester author deserves all the generous encomiums and more lavished on it. A disgraced undercover young detective is tasked to find the errant daughter of an influential but shady politician and is plunged into a fascinating descent into the demi-world of the modern Mancunian drug scene.
All too soon, the case becomes intensely personal as he gets embroiled with the 'sirens' of the title, the not always innocent young women who work on the fringes of the scene as courriers or more. With terrible affection for his bruised and imperfect characters, Knox displays a master's touch in slow plot building that any veteran crime writer would envy all the way through to a bleak but satisfying ending full of humanity and dread. British Noir at its sensitive and worrying best. ~ Maxim Jakubowski
A Maxim Jakubowski selected title.
It starts with the girl. How it ends is up to DC Aidan Waits. Isabelle Rossiter has run away again.
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It starts with the girl. How it ends is up to DC Aidan Waits.
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Sirens was written by Joseph Knox and published by Doubleday an imprint of Transworld Publishers Ltd
