Thanks to the lovely Elizabeth Masters at Quercus, not only do I have a copy of Lost and Never Found by Simon Mason on my TBR, but I’m thrilled to be able to offer a hardback copy of the book to a lucky UK reader. You can find out how to enter further down this blog post, but first, let me give you a few more details about the book.

Lost and Never Found is the third book in Simon Mason’s highly praised DI Wilkins series and is published by Quercus imprint Riverrun today, 18th January 2024. Lost and Never Found is available for purchase through the links here.

Lost and Never Found

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 Services 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 takes a shine to Ray – and takes against Ryan – things are only going to get even messier.

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Doesn’t that sound intriguing? Let’s have that giveaway!

Giveaway

A Hardback Copy of Lost and Never Found by Simon Mason

This is a UK only giveaway and the randomly selected winner will need to provide me with a UK address for their prize copy of Lost and Never Found to be sent directly from the publisher. Those details will not be retained.

For your chance to win a copy of Lost and Never Found, click HERE.

Entries close at UK 23.29 PM Sunday 21st January 2024. Good luck!

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 is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford. At first he wrote books for adults, then books for children, which grew up at roughly the same rate his own children grew up, and now he is back writing books for adults again. He has written a work of non-fiction, The Rough Guide to Classic Novels. His novels have been shortlisted for a number of awards, including the Branford Boase Prize for Best First Children’s Novel, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Costa Prize for Best Children’s Book, and have won the Betty Trask for Best First Novel and the Crimefest Prize for Best YA Crime Novel.