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The Sleepwalker
by Joseph Knox
The Sleepwalker by Joseph Knox is the third novel involving Manchester Detective Aidan Waits. In the novel, Waits and his partner Sutty have been detailed to guard and attempt to locate the remains of a murder victim from a tight-lipped convicted murderer as he lays dying in a hospital ward. Over the years, Martin Wick, the convicted murderer, has had numerous attempts made upon his life while imprisoned and from the time of his arrest has denied murdering anyone, let alone the family he was accused of killing.
As the story moves forward, after an attack upon Wick, that also ends up causing serious injury to Sutty, Waits is assigned a new partner and as ordered by his boss and nemesis Superintendent Parrs, tasked with conducting a shadow investigation into what happened.
Knox has brought back previously introduced characters and continues to build upon their personalities. These characters include Naomi Black, Parrs and Zain Carver. Knox also introduces another realistic villain, as well as continues to show ordinary humans can be as vile and stomach-churning villains as any imagined, supernatural, comic book like villain.
Knox combines other plot threads that include departmental politics, the suicide of a young woman police officer who's remains have never been found and the question of whether or not Wick's actually murdered the family he was accused of killing. Along the way, Knox also tells a tale with results that do allow the reader to bond with the fictional characters.
To tell more would reveal spoilers.
Knox's novels are gritty and highly recommended. It is suggested the novels be read in order. Those who enjoy the novels of Adrian McKinty and Alan Parks should also enjoy the novels of Knox.
As the story moves forward, after an attack upon Wick, that also ends up causing serious injury to Sutty, Waits is assigned a new partner and as ordered by his boss and nemesis Superintendent Parrs, tasked with conducting a shadow investigation into what happened.
Knox has brought back previously introduced characters and continues to build upon their personalities. These characters include Naomi Black, Parrs and Zain Carver. Knox also introduces another realistic villain, as well as continues to show ordinary humans can be as vile and stomach-churning villains as any imagined, supernatural, comic book like villain.
Knox combines other plot threads that include departmental politics, the suicide of a young woman police officer who's remains have never been found and the question of whether or not Wick's actually murdered the family he was accused of killing. Along the way, Knox also tells a tale with results that do allow the reader to bond with the fictional characters.
To tell more would reveal spoilers.
Knox's novels are gritty and highly recommended. It is suggested the novels be read in order. Those who enjoy the novels of Adrian McKinty and Alan Parks should also enjoy the novels of Knox.