The Dangerous Stranger

A terrific writer – Peter May
An electrifying read replete with feints and false leads. * Saga *
Excellent … DI Ryan Wilkins, the unlikely Sherlock in a shell suit, is an enduringly brilliant creation * Mail on Sunday *
One of the highlights of the genre … impressive as well as highly entertaining, and has real depths of emotion * Literary Review *
What makes The Dangerous Stranger so addictively readable is the vividly delineated characters, and despite it being the fifth in the series, the narrative unspools like a standalone thriller … there is a curious layer of black-humour that makes the narrative sparkle and pages turn with impatience - because little is what it seems * Shots *
Startling … Mason is an exceptional storyteller, basing ingenious plots on events that mirror life * Times *
Mason is becoming a master of the modern British police procedural and his double act is one for the connoisseurs * Crime Time *
Brilliantly complex characters and plot laden with twists and turns * Sun *
Mason is a superb storyteller, accurately depicting the deprivation that coexists with Oxford’s dreaming spires * Guardian (Best Recent Crime and Thrillers) *
One of the genre’s outstanding new writers … his funny, thoughtful books are gems * Telegraph (Best Crime Fiction) *
A highly topical and enjoyable page turner * Daily Express *
Mason’s Oxford-based detective duo, spanning the social spectrum, is one of the best characterised since Reginald Hill’s Dalziel and Pascoe * Barry Forshaw, FT *

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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