TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knox,Joseph
TI  - The smiling man: a novel 
SN  - 9781524763190
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
KW  - Police
KW  - England
KW  - Manchester
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Shift systems
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Manchester (England)
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
N2  - Aidan Waits is back on the night shift, the Manchester PD dumping ground for those too screwed-up for more glamorous work. But the monotony of petty crimes and lonesome nights is shattered when he and his partner are called to investigate a break-in at The Palace, an immense, empty hotel in the center of the city. There they find the body of a man. He is dead. The tags have been cut from his clothes, his teeth have been filed down, and even his fingertips have been replaced... And he is smiling. But as Waits begins to unravel the mystery of the smiling man, he becomes a target. Someone wants very badly to make this case disappear, and as their threats escalate, Aidan realizes that the answers may lie not only with the wealthy families and organized criminals connected to the Palace, but with a far greater evil from his own past. To discover the smiling man's identity, he must finally confront his own
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