Lost and Never Found by Simon Mason

Lost and Never Found by Simon Mason

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'Ryan and Ray go from strength to strength, and this, their third outing, is the best yet. Simon Mason has created crime fiction's most entertaining double act in decades' Mick Herron

Oxford, city of rich and poor, where the homeless camp out in the shadows of the gorgeous buildings and monuments. 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 abandoned in dingy Becket Street. The paparazzi go wild.

For some reason, news of Zara's disappearance prompts homeless woman Lena Wójcik to search the camps, nervously, for the bad-tempered vagrant known as 'Waitrose', a familiar sight in Oxford pushing his trolley of possessions. But he's nowhere to be found either.

Who will lead the investigation and cope with the media frenzy? Suave, prize-winning, Oxford-educated DI Ray Wilkins is passed over in favour of his partner, gobby, trailer-park educated DI Ryan Wilkins (no relation). You wouldn't think Ray would be happy. He isn't. You wouldn't think Ryan would be any good at national press presentations. He isn't.

And when legendary cop Chester Lynch takes a shine to Ray - and takes against Ryan - things are only going to get even messier.

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT LOST AND NEVER FOUND
'If you like intelligent crime novels, with excellent characters, then try this series' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'A fast paced, entertaining read which is very enjoyable' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'An excellent, very readable crime novel' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Another gripping tale from the first to the last chapter' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

As in all fine novels, it is the voice that grips you: ironic, eloquent, but compassionate -- Nicholas Chee * 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) *
Superb series -- Joan Smith * Sunday Times (Best Crime Books of 2024 so far) *
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 *

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 is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford.

At first he wrote books for adults, then books for children, which grew up at roughly the same rate his own children grew up, and now he is back writing books for adults again. He has written a work of non-fiction, The Rough Guide to Classic Novels. His novels have been shortlisted for a number of awards, including the Branford Boase Prize for Best First Children's Novel, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Costa Prize for Best Children's Book, and have won the Betty Trask for Best First Novel and the Crimefest Prize for Best YA Crime Novel.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781529425864
ISBN 10	1529425867
Title	Lost and Never Found
Author	Simon Mason
Series	Di Ryan Wilkins Mysteries
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Quercus Publishing
Year published	2024-01-18
Number of pages	352
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.