Bryan J Mason

Bryan J Mason wrote his first novel, Shaking Hands with the Devil, in the late 1980s, but after he and his agent failed to get it he gave up and consigned it to drawer. He finally redrafted it and was delighted to find success over thirty years since the first draft.

He has worked as a financial investigator, a mediator and made sound effects for BBC Radio before becoming a full-time crime writer. As well as crime writing he writes regular theatre reviews and writes and directs an annual community pantomime.

The Harry & The Squad trilogy is now complete and available in all formats. Dark humour for even darker times!

Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles An Old Tin Can was followed by Dead On. The trilogy concludes with the ominously titled There Are No Happy Endings. All three can be read as stand alone novels and are avaiable in paperback, eBook, Kindle Unlimited and audiobooks. 

Bryan describes his genre as ‘black comedy crime’ and enjoys writing in a historical context, which owes something to being a history graduate, but might also be an aversion to writing about modern scientific forensics and CCTV. He is writing a new series set in a Victorian undertakers. 

A member of the Crime Writers Association and Society of Authors, he lives in Bristol with his wife and has two children in their twenties. He enjoys swimming, eating out and the theatre, but is never happier than when hanging around in graveyards, which he thinks might come in handy one day.

The Harry & The Squad novels are all available under the black comedy crime banner: www.blackcomedycrime.com  

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

STOP PRESS:  Audiobooks for all three Harry books are now available, narrated by the talented Kevin Baugh

 UNDERWOOD & NIECE 

Bryan is working on his new series, set in a Victorian undertakers.