Lost and Never Found, Simon Mason
Lost and Never Found, Simon Mason
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Lost and Never Found
the twisty DI Ryan Wilkins Mystery set in Oxford

Author: Simon Mason

Series: DI Ryan Wilkins Mysteries #3

Narrator: Matt Addis

Unabridged: 9 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: riverrun

Published: 01/18/2024

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

About Simon Mason

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ceecee

4 - 5 stars DI Ray Wilkins and DI Ryan Wilkins #3 Definitely no relation! Oxford is a truly wonderful city, a city of rich and poor, a city where the homeless camp out wherever they can. They are the lost, but who are the never found? There’s a surprise one day for workers at an illegal Oxford car was......more

Goodreads review by Shannon M (Canada)

LOST AND NOT FOUND is the third instalment in the series featuring DI Ryan Wilkins and DI Ray Wilkins (not related) and is, by far, the best to date. It can be read strictly as a mystery/thriller but it is much more than that. It is a farcical comedy (in parts) and an examination of British social p......more

Goodreads review by Karen

3.0 / 5 Probably didn’t help as I had my theory test to revise for, but my interest in this book gradually began to die half way through. It felt very boring and stagnant at parts of the plot. There are some random filler scenes, and overall it didn’t have that gripping tense feel to the plot. I dis......more

Goodreads review by Josephine

This is my first outing with Dci's Ryan and Ray Wilkins. Not related and the polar opposite posite of each other and yet a real wi nibg combination. I loved the fact i could just read it and learn about them without needing to read tge previous books. Although i definitely will read them aftef this......more

Quotes

As in all fine novels, it is the voice that grips you: ironic, eloquent, but compassionate. 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

My favourite UK series.

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.

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