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.

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.