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The Broken Afternoon

(2023)
(The second book in the DI Wilkins Mysteries series)
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Awards
2024 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist)

'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 Fry

A DI RYAN WILKINS MYSTERY

A SHOCKING DISAPPEARANCE

A four-year-old girl goes missing in plain sight outside her nursery in Oxford, a middle-class, affluent area,
her mother only a stones-throw away.

A TRIGGERING RESPONSE

Ryan Wilkins, one of the youngest ever Detective Inspectors in the Thames Valley force, dishonourably discharged three months ago, watches his former partner DI Ray Wilkins deliver a press conference, confirming a lead.

A DARK WEB

Ray begins to delve deeper, unearthing an underground network of criminal forces in the local area. But while Ray's investigation stalls Ryan brings his unique talents to unofficial and quite illegal inquiries which will bring him into a confrontation with the very officials who have thrown him out of the force.

Praise for the DI Ryan Wilkins Mysteries

'Mason has reformulated Inspector Morse for the 2020s'
The Times
'Start now and avoid the rush'
Guardian


Genre: Mystery

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