True Crime Story

An absolute triumph. It sucked me in, chewed me up, spat me out and left me blinking like the moment the lights go on at a fuzzy basement nightclub. Phenomenal, current, bleakly devastating. An iron gauntlet in the guts. Loved it.

Matt Wesolowski

Reads like a cinematic true crime documentary. Brilliant, compelling and original.

Steve Cavanagh

Highly original and mischievous novel - a complete triumph

John Boyne

Absolutely brilliant. I think it's a game-changer

Martyn Waites

Pure genius - all the things you want to a crime novel to be, also hilarious. I love it

Jane Casey

True Crime Story is phenomenal. One of the most original thrillers I've read in years, perhaps ever. A gritty, twisted murder mystery told in the unique style of a true crime account. I've rarely raced through a book so fast. I'm just gutted that it's probably ruined me for thrillers for a good long while! Absolutely remarkable.

Robyn Young

WOW ! this is a work of outstanding and staggering genius! You always get beautiful prose and a crackling plot from Mr Knox. But this has extra madness. It's the most original book I've read in ages

Imran Mahmood

The most exciting and original crime book you'll read this year

Anna Mazzola

Dark, seedy, and not to be trusted, and that's just the character Joseph Knox, as written by Joseph Knox!This is a very clever book indeed. Fiction so convincingly written as true crime that I ended up Googling the victim just to check I hadn't got the wrong end of the stick.

Jack Grimwood

Totally gripping, original, and white- hot suspenseful

Robert Crais

An audacious idea, ingeniously executed

Sarah Hilary

One of the most unafraid contemporary crime writers ... a genre defying complex construct of smoke and mirrors, this book is very, very clever.

Helen Fields

A story that'll leave your head spinning and questioning just who gets to shape the narrative when a woman goes missing...

Stylist

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

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

One of the most engaging cold-case novels I have read

Natasha Cooper, Literary Review

The gifted Joseph Knox continues his upwards trajectory...forging something original and innovative.

Barry Forshaw, Financial Times

Ingenious...brilliantly original

Laura Shepherd Robinson

Hugely ambitious

Irish Independent

This satire of the true crime genre is ingenious, funny and totally original

The Sun

Truly immersive: complex, disturbing, unexpectedly funny and very smart

Laura Wilson, The Guardian

Best new fiction. Knox tears up the rule book, this bravura performance it's darkness leavened by very black humour

John Williams, Mail on Sunday

An ingenious thriller

Choice Magazine

Inventive, playful and hugely enjoyable.

Sunday Express

Supple and urgent - another slab of Knox brilliance

Metro

Knox has produced something extraordinary ... post-modern playfulness [embedded] in a rich and compelling plot that twists and turns until the final pages

The Big Issue

Astonishing! So clever, so original! Highly recommended

Jane Fallon

This clever novel reads like a true crime story (at times you have to remind yourself it's fiction), which makes it all the more compelling

Independent

An ingenious thriller

Choice Magazine

A very stylish novel revealing not only the unreliability of witnesses, but also the voyeurism in much crime reporting, crime investigation, and yes, in those of us who enjoy crime fiction

The Tablet

Book of the year True Crime Story by Joseph Knox, a provocative mix of real and fictional crime in which the author himself investigates the disappearance of a student named Zoe. But is she a real or fictional character? With a fragmentary narrative style, this is something new in the overcrowded crime genre

Barry Forshaw, i Paper

Joseph Knox cements his reputation as one of the best of the new guard of British crime writers with True Crime Story, in which one Joseph Knox - a deliciously unflattering self-portrait - becomes entangled in the investigation into the disappearance of a student. It's a meta-fictional trick that helps to create a genuine (and genuinely pleasurable) sense of unease.

Best Books of 2021, The Telegraph