Joseph Knox was born and raised in and around Stoke and Manchester, where he worked in bars and bookshops before moving to London. He runs, writes and reads compulsively. 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 series. True Crime Story is a standalone.
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 *