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'Fascinating' The Times
'Elegant' Financial Times

The people I work with call me 'Finder'. I'm a specialist, a finder of missing people.

This eBook omnibus of Finder mysteries from Simon Mason weaves three distinctly compelling tales. Spanning the suburbias of Kent, civic centres of Bournemouth and underworlds of Sheffield, the novellas comprise of characters long missing from their original lives, and follows the Finder as he seeks them out.

In Missing Person: Alice, a 12-year-old schoolgirl goes missing while doing her paper round. Nine years later, the Finder is forced to consider violently opposing narratives of the girl: was the timid 12-year-old a victim of a predator, or was she carrying out a plan of her own?

In The Case of the Lonely Accountant, well-mannered accountant Don Bayliss disappears during the height of the financial crash. When the Finder searches for him seven years later, he discovers the secrets that haunted him in his home life, the mistakes that led to him being investigated at work, and through it all, the unlikely friendship he made.

In The Woman Who Laughed, there is a spate of murders of Black sex workers in northern cities, one of whom is Ella Bailey. When, five years after her death Ella is seen in Sheffield, the Finder begins a search that takes him back to Ella's past - reckoning with her wayward friends, abusive boyfriend and foster parents who are still reeling from the loss.

'Excellently lean and tense crime novel with a touch of the nouveau roman about it' Ian Rankin
'Mason has been mainlining Simenon for a while, and it shows' Mick Herron
'The very definition of unputdownable' David Peace
'It's like the provincial British version of Maigret' Clare Chambers