Улыбающийся человек

For the first time in Russian, a sequel to "the best British debut in the detective genre in years" (Crimescene Magazine), "noir is razor-sharp, something completely out of the ordinary" (Lee Child). The first Aidan Waits novel, The Sirens, became the top best-selling detective debut in England in 2017 (circulation of 100,000), has been translated into 18 languages, and is currently at Lookout Point (A Suitable Groom, " Gentleman Jack") is preparing a film adaptation of the entire trilogy. Detective Constable Aidan Waits and his night shift partner, Detective Inspector Sutcliffe, arrive at a call at the closed Palace Hotel. On the fifth floor of an empty historical building, they find a man - swarthy, blue-eyed, smiling widely and dead. Decently dressed, but without a single document in his pockets, and even the labels on his clothes were torn. Moreover, the skin has been removed from the fingertips, and the teeth have been turned into crowns. How to solve the murder of a man who seemed not to exist? Especially when an uninvited and terrifying ghost appears from Aidan Waits' past life... Word to the author: “The Smiling Man was inspired by a real murder that has remained unsolved for seventy years, and even the identity of the victim has not yet been established. Perhaps this is the strangest and most mysterious case in the history of world criminology.” Translator Matveeva E.