Simon Mason

A DI RYAN WILKINS MYSTERY A four-year-old girl goes missing in plain sight outside her nursery in Oxford, a middle-class, affluent area, her mother only a stones-throw away. Ryan Wilkins, one of the youngest ever Detective Inspectors in the Thames Valley force, dishonourably discharged three...

A Guardian best crime and thriller book of 2024 'Excellently lean and tense crime novel with a touch of the nouveau roman about it' Ian Rankin 'Mason has been mainlining Simenon for a while, and it shows' Mick Herron 'The very definition of unputdownable' David Peace 'It's like the provincial...

A Killing in November is an Oxford-set crime series of surprising twists, troubled pasts and a dynamic duo who are brought together by a mysterious murder investigation. Ryan Wilkins grew up on a trailer park, a member of what many people would call the criminal classes. As a young Detective...

'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...

Der erste Fall für Ryan Wilkins und Ray Wilkins – die Chemie und der Humor des Ermittlerduos aus gegensätzlichen sozialen Welten macht Lust auf mehr ...

Lost and Never Found is a novel that shows Simon Mason taking his Oxford crime series to a new level of accomplishment. 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...

A Guardian best crime and thriller book of 2024 'Mason has been mainlining Simenon for a while, and it shows' Mick Herron 'The very definition of unputdownable' David Peace 'It's like the provincial British version of Maigret' Clare Chambers Bournemouth 2008, the height of the financial crash...

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