{"product_id":"9781529439724","title":"The Woman Who Laughed : a brand new installment in the critically acclaimed Finder Mysteries","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Mason, Simon\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 5 June 2025 by Quercus Publishing (riverrun) in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Finder Mysteries' series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 224 pages, N\/A\u003cbr\u003e135 x 193 x 19 | 216g\u003cp\u003e'The very definition of unputdownable' David Peace'Mason packs more into 200 pages than many writers do at twice the length' Sunday TimesIn the first months of 2020 there was a spate of murders of Black sex workers in northern cities. One of them was Ella Bailey, last seen talking to a punter in an alley in Sheffield city centre, and although no trace of her was ever found, the punter, Michael Godley, soon confessed to all three murders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive years later, as another sex worker is murdered in the same district, the bag Ella had been carrying with her reappears, hanging on the door handles of a café, and a local vagrant claims to have seen Ella sitting on a bench in a churchyard near the site of the murder. South Yorkshire Police call in the Finder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins a search that takes him back to the strange days of the pandemic, to talk to those who knew Ella best, such as her wayward girlfriend 'Loz', abusive boyfriend Caine Poynton-Smith and respectable foster-parents still struggling to come to terms with Ella's life. How did their intelligent, strong-willed daughter - bright student and national schoolgirl athletics champion - end up in that alley?As fear grips the city, our Finder must court danger to discover the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mason, Simon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51647147868344,"sku":"9781529439724","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781529439724.jpg?v=1754998679","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781529439724","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}