検索キーワード： 著者 "Simon Mason" すべてのカテゴリー

Für Rachel Clarke beginnen an einem strahlenden Sommertag in Oxford die dunkelsten Stunden ihres Lebens: Ihre vierjährige Tochter Poppy verschwindet, während Rachel kurz abgelenkt ist. Sofort wird die Polizei eingeschaltet, und auch Ryan Wilkins nimmt Anteil an der Suche. Zwar ist er vom Dienst suspendiert, sodass nur sein Ex-Partner DI Ray Wilkins offiziell ermittelt, doch Ryan kann nicht tatenlos bleiben. Zumal ihn ein Ereignis in der Nacht nach der Tat nicht loslässt: »Mick Dick«, ein Kleinkrimineller, kommt bei einem Unfall ums Leben, nachdem ihn irgendetwas in Panik versetzt hatte.

**PREORDER THE LATEST DI RYAN WILKINS MYSTERY NOW** '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 Craven On a warm and pleasant evening in...

At three o'clock in the morning, Emergency 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.

A DI RYAN WILKINS MYSTERY 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. Ryan Wilkins, one of the youngest ever Detective Inspectors in the Thames Valley force, dishonourably discharged three...

Ryan Wilkins grew up on a trailer park, a member of what many people would call the criminal classes. As a young Detective Inspector, he's lost none of his disgust with privileged elites - or his objectionable manners. But he notices things; they stick to his eyes. His professional partner, DI Ray Wilkins, of affluent Nigerian London heritage, is an impeccably groomed, smooth-talking graduate of Balliol College, Oxford. You wouldn't think they would get on. They don't. But when a young woman is found strangled at Barnabas Hall, they're forced to.

Alexis and Elliott begin the series with the largely overlooked 11th president, James K. Polk, and are joined by America's favorite satirist, Jon Stewart, writer and comedian John Hodgman, author Regina Mason, and Barney's Creative Ambassador-at-Large Simon Doonan. Presidents Are People Too!, an Audible Original, recasts each of the American presidents as real-life people, complete with flaws, quirks, triumphs, scandals and bodily ailments.

Will lernt, wie man sich im Hotel so richtig gut benimmt - und dass man in der Sauna den Mantel ausziehen darf. Seine Schwester Lucy bekommt Ärger, weil sie versucht, so richtig viel Geld zu verdienen - dabei ist es doch alles für Mama und Papa! Mama wünscht sich zum Muttertag einen Spaziergang mit der ganzen Familie - aber der wütende Stier war nicht eingeplant. Und Papa hat plötzlich die komische Idee, in ein größeres Haus zu ziehen - da hat er aber nicht mit Will und Lucy gerechnet!

Will hat zwei Wellensittiche. Getauft hat er sie während seiner Aztekenphase. Deshalb heißt der blaue "Tosender Wind"...

In 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 murders. Five years later, as another sex worker is murdered in the same district, the bag Ella had been carrying with her reappears, hanging on the door handles of a café, and a local vagrant claims to have seen Ella sitting on a bench in a churchyard near the site of the murder.

July 2015, Sevenoaks. 12-year-old schoolgirl Alice Johnson went missing while doing her paper round, her bag found discarded on the pavement. At 08.00, she was spotted standing in heavy rain at the side of the busy by-pass. At 11.00, she was seen talking to the driver of a black car in Tonbridge. After that, nothing. Alice was never found. Nine years later the body of another schoolgirl, Joleen Price, is pulled from a nearby lake and a local man named Vince Burns detained. Convinced that Burns is guilty in both cases, SIO Dave Armstrong calls in the Finder.

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Bournemouth 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 clothes are found discarded at the mouth of Poole Harbour. The Finder begins with the last sightings of Don on the day he went missing, hearing how he seemed in a hurry, somewhat distracted? He unearths a string of overlooked clues that lead him to face the unlikely friendships that Don had made and more.

Der erste Fall für Ryan Wilkins und Ray Wilkins – die Chemie und der Humor des Ermittlerduos aus gegensätzlichen sozialen Welten macht Lust auf mehr. DI Ryan Wilkins kennt die Universität Oxford nur aus der Ferne. Aufgewachsen in einem Trailerpark ist ihm diese elitäre Welt so fremd wie suspekt. Nun führt ihn der grausame Mord an einer jungen Frau ausgerechnet in die ehrwürdigen Hallen eines der Colleges – und an die Seite seines Namensvetters, des smarten DI Ray Wilkins, Spross einer wohlhabenden nigerianisch-britischen Familie und Oxford-Absolvent.