Joseph Knox

"Infiltrating the inner circle of enigmatic criminal Zain Carver is dangerous enough. Pulling it off while also rescuing Isabelle Rossiter, a runaway politician's daughter, from Zain's influence? Impossible. That's why Aidan Waits is the perfect man for the job. Disgraced, emotionally damaged, and despised by his superiors--in other words, completely expendable. But Aidan is a born survivor. And as he works his way deep into Zain's shadowy world, he finds that nothing is as it seems"--

Sirens

It starts with the girl. How it ends is up to DC Aidan Waits. Isabelle Rossiter has run away again. When Aidan Waits, a troubled junior detective, is summoned to her father's penthouse home - he finds a manipulative man, with powerful friends. But retracing Isabelle's steps through a dark, nocturnal world, Waits finds something else. An intelligent seventeen-year-old girl who's scared to death of something. As he investigates her story, and the unsolved disappearance of a young woman just like her, he realizes Isabelle was right to run away. Soon Waits is cut loose by his superiors, stalked by an unseen killer and dangerously attracted to the wrong woman. He's out of his depth and out of time. How can he save the girl, when he can't even save himself?

azliana aziz

WOW after closing this book I feel like I was dreaming. a haunting, beautiful, lucid one.

Knox's debut is astounding with stark original voice that is sure to make a big splash in the packed crime thriller genre. (though i must say, Sirens really falls in it's subgenre, new noir)

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a bit of personal testament of how this book gets under your skin subconsciously. 

okay so I read sirens within two sleeps and I was a bit fucked up with the first half that I had really restless sleep the first night. I swear I thought that I saw shadows in my room and some of the things in the book keep on playing in my mind I was creeped out.
thankfully for the second half I was accustomed to it all and yeah I can sleep fairly ok. I can assure you that I don't frequently get weird like this.

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this book is not the usual crop in this genre and all attributed to once again, Joseph Knox's impeccable writing and characters. they were all so beguiling and crushing at the same time. so real, so ugly and so utterly affecting. 
also, I read that he wrote this in a span of 10 years and well big congratulations to you sir it paid off really well and I think his background in working at bars clearly showed in how he deftly used them as one of the important settings in the book.

can't wait to read his next novel. 

PERFECT DEBUT. REMARKABLE STORY.

Southern Today Gone Tomorrow

Written by Joseph Knox, this story follows a Detective who has seen the worst of the worst and is neck deep in it. He does drugs, he is involved with the wrong people, he has disappeared, and he honestly just wants to do the right thing.

If you enjoy detective novels, the dark and gritty kind, you will enjoy this book. This looks at aspects of the darkness which many of us never have to deal with. And, personally, I would like to keep it that way.

It is also a murder mystery and suspense novel.

There is a lot going on. 

It definitely helps that this book is not only well written but well thought out. This book plays with the knowledge it gives you expertly to keep you guessing and make it clear that the characters know far more than you do and turns the story into a true mystery for the reader.

However, this wasn't my cup of tea. Well written and an interesting story, I just wasn't feeling a dark story when I was reading this, and this is a dark novel from the get go.

Toyah Blackburn

Ahmed Salem

Paulina 

A riveting thriller about a damaged undercover detective navigating a web of politicians, drug lords, missing persons, and his own flawed department, perfect for readers of Tana French, Don Winslow and Dennis Lehane. Infiltrating the inner circle of enigmatic criminal Zain Carver is dangerous enough. Pulling it off while also rescuing Isabelle Rossiter, a runaway politician’s daughter, from Zain’s influence? Impossible. That’s why Aidan Waits is the perfect man for the job. Disgraced, emotionally damaged, and despised by his superiors. In other words, completely expendable. But Aidan is a born survivor. And as he works his way deep into Zain’s shadowy world, he finds that nothing is as it seems. Zain is a mesmerizing, Gatsby-esque figure who lures young women into his orbit—women who have a bad habit of turning up dead. But is Zain really responsible? And will Isabelle be next? Before long, Aidan finds himself in over his head, cut loose by his superiors, and dangerously attracted to the wrong woman. How can he save the girl if he can’t even save himself?

Sirens

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