True Crime Story

Scandalously entertaining…Knox is a fantastic writer. His ambitious fourth novel satirises and celebrates the true-crime genre with glee … by turns horrific and hilarious – Mark Sanderson * The Times *Truly immersive: complex, disturbing, unexpectedly funny and very smart – Laura Wilson * The Guardian *One of the most engaging cold-case novels I have read – Natasha Cooper * Literary Review *Knox the author pulls off a hybrid triumph: at once an old-fashioned whodunnit and a smart postmodern literary novel asking questions about the ethics of all editing, as well as the true-crime genre. Dazzlingly original. – John Dugdale * Sunday Times *The gifted Joseph Knox continues his upwards trajectory…forging something original and innovative. – Barry Forshaw * Financial Times *Best new fiction. Knox tears up the rule book, this bravura performance it’s darkness leavened by very black humour – John Williams * Mail on Sunday *This satire of the true crime genre is ingenious, funny and totally original * The Sun *Reads like a cinematic true crime documentary. Brilliant, compelling and original. * Steve Cavanagh *An absolute triumph. It sucked me in, chewed me up, spat me out and left me blinking like the moment the lights go on at a fuzzy basement nightclub. Phenomenal, current, bleakly devastating. An iron gauntlet in the guts. Loved it. * Matt Wesolowski *Highly original and mischievous novel - a complete triumph * John Boyne *

Joseph Knox has lived in Stoke on Trent, Manchester and London. In 2020, he became an Irish citizen. His debut novel Sirens was a bestseller and has been translated into eighteen languages. The Smiling Man and The Sleepwalker are the second and third books in the Waits trilogy. His first standalone novel, True Crime Story, was a Times number one bestseller.

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