'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. A body has been
found on the fourth floor of Manchester's vast and empty Palace Hotel. The man is dead. And he
is smiling. The tags have been removed from his clothes. His teeth have been replaced. Even his
fingertips are not his own. Only a patch sewn into his trousers offers any information about
him. Detective Aidan Waits and his unwilling partner DI Sutcliffe must piece together the
scant clues to identify the stranger. But as they do Aidan realises that a ghost from his past
haunts the investigation. He soon recognises that to discover who the smiling man really is he
must first confront the scattered debris of his own life...
