The broken afternoon /
Mason, Simon
The broken afternoon / Simon Mason - 345 pages ; 20 cm
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 months ago watches his former partner DI Ray Wilkins deliver a press conference, confirming a lead. Ray begins to delve deeper, unearthing an underground network of criminal forces in the local area. But while Ray's investigation stalls Ryan brings his unique talents to unofficial and quite illegal inquiries which will bring him into a confrontation with the very officials who have thrown him out of the force.
9781529415742
Criminal investigations -- Fiction
Detectives and mystery -- Fiction
823.914 MAS
The broken afternoon / Simon Mason - 345 pages ; 20 cm
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 months ago watches his former partner DI Ray Wilkins deliver a press conference, confirming a lead. Ray begins to delve deeper, unearthing an underground network of criminal forces in the local area. But while Ray's investigation stalls Ryan brings his unique talents to unofficial and quite illegal inquiries which will bring him into a confrontation with the very officials who have thrown him out of the force.
9781529415742
Criminal investigations -- Fiction
Detectives and mystery -- Fiction
823.914 MAS