The Woman Who Laughed by Simon Mason

The Woman Who Laughed by Simon Mason

The Woman Who Laughed explores a city where the past and present merge, where cameras close-in on the people and streets, and where the lost and the found can coexist.

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) *

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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ISBN 13	9781529439700
ISBN 10	1529439701
Title	The Woman Who Laughed
Author	Simon Mason
Series	The Finder Mysteries
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Quercus Publishing
Year published	2026-06-04
Number of pages	224
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.