The Woman Who Laughed
a brand new installment in the critically acclaimed Finder Mysteries
$22.56
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2026
Summary
‘The very definition of unputdownable’ David Peace
‘Mason packs more into 200 pages than many writers do at twice the length’ *Sunday Times*
In the first months of 2020, there was a spate of murders of Black sex workers in northern cities. One of them was Ella Bailey, last seen talking to a punter in an alley in Sheffield city centre. Although no trace of her was ever found, the punter, Michael Godley, soon confessed to all three murders.
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529439700 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529439701 |
| Author: | Simon Mason |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 18mm |
| Series: | The Finder Mysteries |
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Critics Review
The Finder Mysteries are everything great crime fiction aspires to be: human, intricate and hugely entertaining. The Woman Who Laughed kept me guessing, to the last page, and kept me thinking long after that. Simon Mason is a master storyteller whose books should be on every serious reader’s wishlist. – Sarah Hilary
Mason brings to life Sheffield’s red-light district, while Finder’s quest awakens sleeping dogs with devastating consequences * Mail on Sunday *
Simon Mason’s Finder mysteries are well-written, elegantly-structured and unputdownable, bringing shades of Simenon’s Maigret to contemporary rain soaked Britain * Daunt Books *
Simon Mason packs more into 200 pages than many writers do at twice the length. Kudos. * The Times *
[Mason] has struck gold with his laconic, just-the-facts Finder mysteries, about a freelance investigator brought in by police to track missing people * The Sun (Crime & Thriller special) *
[T]ranslates the ethos of Georges Simenon’s Maigret into an English setting: concise, richly characterised, impeccably plotted – Barry Forshaw (The Best of Summer Crime, Financial Times)
Crime fans are hooked on Mason’s tight and gripping novellas * Peterborough Telegraph *
Dark, exquisite and utterly absorbing, The Finder Mysteries are a rare and special thing * Russ Thomas *
Mason packs more into 200 pages than many writers do at twice the length * Sunday Times *
Puzzling, literary, concise and utterly compelling * Choice Magazine *
British procedural with local flavour and dry humour. Brings to mind classic noir, but rooted in the here and now * Loaded *
At once searching, believable, short, well-written, and provided with a Maigret-like protagonist who is used by Mason to offer a wise humanity in another brilliant novel. * Critic (September Book of the Month) *
About The Author
Simon Mason
Simon Mason has pursued parallel careers as a publisher and an author. His 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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