The Knocks Kate Simants

The Knocks Kate Simants

Winner of the 2019 Bath Novel Award, this is an immersive and heartrending thriller, set in the world of the foster system and forgotten children

Two years ago, teenagers Rob and Paige broke into a house and stole only one thing: a necklace. No one knows why. And Paige hasn’t been seen since that night. Having spent her life in children’s homes and the foster system, no one cared enough to look for her.

Now Rob is out of prison, and probation officer Wren Reynolds has been tasked with his rehabilitation. But Wren has her own reasons for taking on Rob as a client. Convinced that Rob knows what happened to Paige, and hiding a lifetime of secrets from her heavily pregnant wife, Wren’s obsession with finding the missing girl may tear her family apart …

‘A mesmerising tale of justice and redemption which will have you spellbound … one of the rising stars of crime fiction’ Trevor Woods, author of The Man on the Street

‘Immersive and compelling, authentic and raw’ S. E. Lynes, author of The Women

Kate Simants spent several years as an investigative undercover journalist for Channel 4 and the BBC. She was shortlisted for a CWA Debut Dagger for her first novel Lock Me In and won the UEA Literary Festival scholarship to study for an MA in Crime Fiction. She graduated with a Distinction. She lives near Bristol with her family. @katesboat Crime fiction £8.99 B-format trade paperback ISBN: 978 1 78816 597 6 400pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 742 8 August 2020 UK Com ex Can Exclusive Europe