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Missing Person: Alice

The Finder Mysteries, Book 1

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Missing Person: Alice

By: Simon Mason
Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
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A Guardian best crime and thriller book of 2024

'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

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

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 to investigate the earlier disappearance.

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?

The Case of the Lonely Accountant, book two in the Finder Mysteries, is OUT NOW! ©2024 Simon Mason (P)2024 Quercus Editions Limited
Crime Fiction Crime Thrillers Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Thriller & Suspense Exciting

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A great enjoyable read/ listen.
I wish this author will write more books about the Finder.
The narration is very well done, in elegant, understated way.
Thank you !

A wonderful book

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Enjoyable and believable story. Looking forward to book #2. To see how the character develops

Intriguing story

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A thoughtful and compelling thriller that grips from the beginning and peels back the layers of the mystery in an utterly rewarding manner. Read with a quiet clarity that is befitting of the story.

Unfolds like blossoming flower to a rewarding finale.

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I enjoyed this relatively short and well plotted missing person story. The protagonist is empathetic and the secondary characters believable. The resolution was satisfying

Well plotted missing person tale

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Loved it all, sooo compelling and well written 👏thanks so much - can’t recommend it enough

Fabulous!

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