Bryan J Mason

Bryan wrote his first novel, Shaking Hands With The Devil in the late 1980’s, but when he and his agent failed to get it published, he decided that he was a failed writer. However, rediscovering and redrafting it years later it was finlly published 30 years after the first draft.  

He has worked as a financial investigator, a mediator and made sound effects for BBC Radio. He is now a full time writer, also contributing regular theatre reviews for StageTalk and Bristol 24/7 magazines. He is a member of the Crime Writers Association,  Society of Authors and Historical Writers Association. 

The second novel in the black comedy crime series set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, Dead On, was published on 5 November 2025.  It continues the story of Harry & The Squad following on from An Old Tin Can. The final part of the trilogy will be There Are No Happy Endings is due to be published in October 2026. The recurrent themes are identity, murder and … biscuits. 

He lives in Bristol with his wife and has two children in their twenties.

He likes nothing more than hanging around in a graveyard, which he thinks might come in handy one day. 

The Harry & The Squad novels are now available again under an exciting new banner: www.blackcomedycrime.com  

I am one of the 10,00 signatories supporting Human Authored – ee: https://www.dontstealthisbook.com/. 

STOP PRESS:  I am delighted to announce the first of the Harry books will be available as an Audiobook from late May 2026, narrated by the supremely talented Kevin Baugh.