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Lost and Never Found
DI Ryan Wilkins Mysteries (Book 3)
- Author
- Simon Mason
- Narrator
- Matt Addis
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Publish Date
- 18 January 2024
- Run Time
- 9 hours 52 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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 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 (Black female Deputy Chief Constable from the wrong side of the tracks) takes a shine to Ray - and takes against Ryan - things are only going to get even messier.
(P) 2024 Quercus Editions Limited
Critics Review
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As in all fine novels, it is the voice that grips you: ironic, eloquent, but compassionate.
Bookbrunch
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Better than Morse in its bite, pace, urgency and characterisation.
The Critic
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Mason has created a gripping case while making his cops so human they leap off the pages.
Peterborough Telegraph
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Superb
Sun
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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)
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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)
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The satisfyingly knotted plot is underpinned by acute psychology
Mail on Sunday
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An original and unexpectedly attractive character
Literary Review
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My favourite UK series.
M W Craven
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Simon Mason's Ray Wilkins crime novels are my latest addiction. I wait impatiently for each one. What are the triple pillars of any great story? Character, Plot and Language. In the twin heroes of his novels (both called Wilkins and so unalike: they somehow create together one immortal police detective) he has created characters for the ages. His plots race thrillingly around an Oxford you never knew existed. His language though ... without exhibiting a trace of "writerly" self-consciousness, he is capable of phrase-making and description of the very highest quality. Those three perfect pillars support truly memorable crime novels, as great a contribution to the noble British genre of detective fiction as any writer for decades.
Stephen Fry
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Details
- Author
- Simon Mason
- Narrator
- Matt Addis
- Duration
- 9 hours 52 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 January 2024
- ISBN
- 9781529425888
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
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 in the morning, Emergency 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 (Black female Deputy Chief Constable from the wrong side of the tracks) takes a shine to Ray - and takes against Ryan - things are only going to get even messier.(P) 2024 Quercus Editions Limited
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