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Aidan Waits ThrillerSeries
Dive into the gritty underbelly of Manchester, a city rife with drug trafficking, gang warfare, and police corruption. This thrilling series follows Detective Aidan Waits as he tackles dangerous cases that plunge him into a world of violence and deceit. Each installment offers a suspenseful journey into the moral gray areas of law enforcement, where the protagonist confronts not only hardened criminals but also his own inner demons. Prepare for a raw and unflinching investigation where the truth comes at a steep price.
Recommended Reading Order
- 1
- 2
The Smiling Man
- 464 pages
- 17 hours of reading
Detective Aidan Waits is on the hunt to find the identity of The Smiling Man. A body has been found on the fourth floor of Manchester's vast and empty Palace Hotel. The man is dead. And he is smiling. The tags have been removed from his clothes. His teeth have been replaced. Even his fingertips are not his own. Only a patch sewn into his trousers offers any information about him. Detective Aidan Waits and his unwilling partner, DI Sutcliffe, must piece together the scant clues to identify the stranger. But as they do, Aidan realises that a ghost from his past haunts the investigation. He soon recognises that to discover who the smiling man really is, he must first confront the scattered debris of his own life...
- 3
The Sleepwalker
- 328 pages
- 12 hours of reading
'He said he didn't remember killing them...' As a series of rolling blackouts plunge the city into darkness, Detective Aidan Waits sits on an abandoned hospital ward, watching a mass murderer slowly die. Transferred from his usual night shift duties and onto protective custody, he has just one job... To extract the location of Martin Wick's final victim before the notorious mass murderer passes away. Wick has spent over a decade in prison, in near-total silence, having confessed to an unspeakable crime that shocked the nation and earned him the nickname of The Sleepwalker. But when a daring premeditated attack leaves one police officer dead and another one fighting for his life, Wick's whispered last words will send Waits on a journey into the heart of darkness... Manipulated by a reticent psychopath from his past, and under investigation from his new partner, Detective Constable Naomi Black, Waits realises too late that a remorseless contract killer is at work. Can Aidan Waits solve his last case before fleeing justice? Or will his name be next on the hit list?