{"product_id":"missing-person-alice-a-twisty-pathological-thriller-beginning-the-finder-mysteries-paperback","title":"Missing Person: Alice: A Twisty, Pathological Thriller Beginning the Finder Mysteries - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSimon Mason\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003cb\u003eExcellently lean and tense crime novel with a touch of the nouveau roman about it' Ian Rankin\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Mason has been mainlining Simenon for a while, and it shows' Mick Herron\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The very definition of unputdownable' David Peace\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'It's like the provincial British version of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaigret' Clare Chambers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe people I work with call me 'Finder'. I'm a specialist, a finder of missing people.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 to investigate the earlier disappearance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Interviewing those who thought they knew her, the Finder gradually reveals a hidden Alice, a girl of surprising contradictions. Seeking answers from her divorced parents - an over-protective mother, a negligent father - the Finder is forced to consider violently opposing narratives. Was the timid 12-year-old a victim of the predator Burns, as he himself hints? Or was she carrying out a plan of her own?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSIMON MASON has pursued parallel careers as a publisher and an author, whose YA crime novels \u003ci\u003eRunning Girl, Kid Got Shot \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHey, Sherlock!\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLost and Never Found\u003c\/i\u003e is the third book in the DI Ryan Wilkins Mysteries. The first book, \u003ci\u003eA Killing in November\u003c\/i\u003e, received widespread critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. The Second book, \u003ci\u003eThe Broken Afternoon\u003c\/i\u003e, was a Times Audio Book of the Week and a \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Crime Book of the Month.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 14, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53376217055597,"sku":"9781529425987","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/iBiiZu8GkO9781529425987.webp?v=1779911864","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/missing-person-alice-a-twisty-pathological-thriller-beginning-the-finder-mysteries-paperback","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}