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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.
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) * 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 *
