´Ryan and Ray go from strength to strength, and this, their third outing, is the best yet. Simon Mason has created crime fiction´s most entertaining double act in decades´ Mick Herron
Oxford, city of rich and poor, where the homeless camp out in the shadows of the gorgeous buildings and monuments. A city of lost things - and buried crimes.
At three o´clock in the morning, Emergency Services 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.
Who will lead the investigation and cope with the media frenzy? Suave, prize-winning, Oxford-educated DI Ray Wilkins is passed over in favour of his partner, gobby, trailer-park educated DI Ryan Wilkins (no relation). You wouldn´t think Ray would be happy. He isn´t. You wouldn´t think Ryan would be any good at national press presentations. He isn´t.
And when legendary cop Chester Lynch takes a shine to Ray - and takes against Ryan - things are only going to get even messier.