DI Ryan Wilkins Mysteries

''This is absolutely first class'' Stephen Fry ''Simon Mason has created crime fiction''s most entertaining double act in decades'' Mick Herron ''Move over Morse'' Val McDermid ''My favourite UK series'' M W Craven On a warm and pleasant evening in Oxford, gentle city of poets and scholars, rioters outside a hotel full of asylum seekers set a young refugee on fire. The city - the country - convulses in shock. Is this who we are? It''s international news of the very worst kind, and the Chief Constable demands immediate and exemplary action in bringing the perpetrators to justice. The detectives leading the investigation fill him with misgivings, however: DIs Ryan and Ray Wilkins (no relation), Thames Valley''s detective pantomime horse, one Oxford-educated, the other Oxford-trailer park. He doesn''t understand why they work together. ''Do they even get on?'' ''Somehow that doesn''t seem necessary,'' their Superintendent