**CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF RYAN AND RAY? BUY THE LATEST BOOK, THE DANGEROUS STRANGER, NOW**SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER 2023'[A] terrific crime novel' Mick Herron'As great a contribution to the noble British genre of detective fiction as any writer for decades' Stephen FryRyan Wilkins grew up on a trailer park, a member of what many people would call the criminal classes. As a you...

Meet Garvie Smith. Highest IQ ever recorded at Marsh Academy. Lowest ever grades. What's the point? Life sucks. Nothing surprising ever happens.Until Chloe Dow's body is pulled from a pond. His ex-girlfriend.DI Singh is already on the case. Ambitious, uptight, methodical - he's determined to solve the mystery - and get promoted. He doesn't need any 'assistance' from notorious slacker, Smith. Or does he?

'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 British version of Maigret' Clare ChambersThe people I work with call me 'Finder'. I'm a specialist, a finder of missing peop...

'This is absolutely first class' Stephen Fry'Simon Mason has created crime fiction's most entertaining double act in decades' Mick Herron'Move over Morse' Val McDermid'My favourite UK series' M W CravenOn a warm and pleasant evening in Oxford, gentle city of poets and scholars, rioters outside a hotel full of asylum seekers set a young refugee on fire. The city - the country - convulses in shoc...

**CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF RYAN AND RAY? GET THE LATEST BOOK, THE DANGEROUS STRANGER, NOW**'Move over Morse. Simon Mason Oxford crime novel breathes fresh life into the police procedural' Val McDermid'As great a contribution to the noble British genre of detective fiction as any writer for decades' Stephen FryA DI RYAN WILKINS MYSTERYA SHOCKING DISAPPEARANCEA four...

**CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF RYAN AND RAY? BUY THE LATEST BOOK, THE DANGEROUS STRANGER, NOW**DEEP DECEPTION. TWISTED FATE.'Move over morse' Val McDermid 'A superb series' Sunday TimesThames Valley has a new Superintendent - DCS Wainwright - young, charismatic and ruthless, charged with pushing through big reforms. Her in-tray is full of problems - and at the top of the pile is the problem of Wilki...

READERS ARE LOVING THE FINDER MYSTERIES**'**Fantastic! Best book I have read in months. Real detective work, no gimmicks, no hi-tech, just good people skills. Loved it.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Couldn't put it down' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Unusual, gentle, compelling' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A remarkable story!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A novel, not jut crime book' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The people I work with call me 'Finde...

'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 ChambersBournemouth 2008, the height of the financial crash. Don Bayliss, a timid and well-mannered accountant, vanishes after leaving his office before a scheduled meeting. His wife is both perplexed and distraught. His ...

'The very definition of unputdownable' David Peace'Mason packs more into 200 pages than many writers do at twice the length' Sunday TimesIn 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 in an alley in Sheffield city centre, and although no trace of her was ever found, the punter, Michael Godley, soon confessed to all three mur...

It's exam season - but Five Mile is in shock. A teenage boy was shot last night, with no clear motive and no clues.Garvie Smith - reprobate, genius and waster - was just getting down to a spot of revision. But he knows he's the only one who has any idea where to look for the answers. Starting with his best friend's girlfriend.Exams. What exams?

Amy Roecastle is beautiful. Selfish. And missing.Vanished without a trace in the middle of the night, she's taken her ferocious dog - and something else, too. Something deadly.Amy's best friend is lying to Inspector Singh, who has no leads and no idea.Cue Garvie Smith. Teenage slacker. Undeniable crime-solving genius.Garvie's one step ahead of the investigation. But there's nothing simple where Amy is involved. And this time Garvie's about to find himself in way over his head.

Warm, entertaining, and above all thought-provoking, Daemon Voices provides a remarkable insight into the mind of one of our greatest writers. He explains which storytellers have meant the most to him, including William Blake and John Milton, why their work has resonated with him, and how it has inspired his own thinking.In over 30 essays, written over 20 years, Philip Pullman reveals the narratives that have shaped his vision, his experience of writing, and the keys to mastering the art o...