Lost and Never Found
the twisty DI Ryan Wilkins Mystery set in Oxford
$34.79
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2024
Summary
‘Simon Mason has created crime fiction’s most entertaining double act in decades’ Mick Herron
‘As great a contribution to the noble British genre of detective fiction as any writer for decades’ Stephen Fry
Oxford. A city of lost things - and buried crimes.
At three o’clock in the morning, Emergency Services receives a call. ‘This is Zara Fanshawe. Always lost and never found.’ An hour later, the wayward celebrity’s Rolls Royce Phantom is found abandone…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529425895 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529425891 |
| Author: | Simon Mason |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 247g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 30mm |
| Series: | DI Ryan Wilkins Mysteries |
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Critics Review
As in all fine novels, it is the voice that grips you: ironic, eloquent, but compassionate. – Nicholas Clee * Bookbrunch *
Better than Morse in its bite, pace, urgency and characterisation. * The Critic *
Mason has created a gripping case while making his cops so human they leap off the pages. * Peterborough Telegraph *
Superb * Sun *
Class conflict and police corruption are at the heart of the third novel in this superb series. * Sunday Times (Pick of the Month, Jan 2024) *
Class conflicts and police corruption are at the heart of the third novel in this superb series. * The Times (The 10 best crime and mystery books of 2024) *
The satisfyingly knotted plot is underpinned by acute psychology * Mail on Sunday *
An original and unexpectedly attractive character * Literary Review *
My favourite UK series. – M W Craven
Simon Mason’s Ray Wilkins crime novels are my latest addiction. I wait impatiently for each one. What are the triple pillars of any great story? Character, Plot and Language. In the twin heroes of his novels (both called Wilkins and so unalike: they somehow create together one immortal police detective) he has created characters for the ages. His plots race thrillingly around an Oxford you never knew existed. His language though … without exhibiting a trace of “writerly” self-consciousness, he is capable of phrase-making and description of the very highest quality. Those three perfect pillars support truly memorable crime novels, as great a contribution to the noble British genre of detective fiction as any writer for decades. – Stephen Fry
About The Author
Simon Mason
Simon Mason has pursued parallel careers as a publisher and an author, whose YA crime novels Running Girl, Kid Got Shot and Hey, Sherlock! feature the sixteen-year-old slacker genius Garvie Smith. A former Managing Director of David Fickling Books, where he worked with many wonderful writers, including Philip Pullman, he has also taught at Oxford Brookes University and has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford.
Lost and Never Found is the third book in the DI Ryan Wilkins Mysteries. The first book, A Killing in November, received widespread critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. The Second book, The Broken Afternoon, was a Times Audio Book of the Week and a Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month.
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