' As great a contribution to the noble British genre of detective fiction as any writer for
decades' Stephen Fry ' Simon Mason has created crime fiction' s most entertaining
double act in decades' Mick Herron 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. Follow on with Lost and Never Found the
next book in the DI Ryan Wilkins Mysteries which The Times described as ' Inspector Morse
for the 2020s.' What readers are saying about The Broken Afternoon 5* ' A
thoroughly engrossing crime fiction romp with Ryan Wilkins continuing to be a wonderful
creation by the author' 5* ' A relentlessly paced police procedural that kept me
guessing until near the end' 5* ' Super' 5* ' Ray and Ryan win again'
