Draft:Bryan J Mason, Author

Bryan J Mason is a crime writer, living in the United Kingdom. He has described his genre as 'black comedy crime', and sometimes as 'serial killer romcom'. He wrote his first novel, 'Shaking Hands With The Devil', in London in the late 1980s, but reluctantly put it away in a drawer after his agent narrowly failed to get it published. He dug it out every ten years or so and in 2019 decided to try once more to get it published. It was published by Pegasus in September 2021. He then embarked on a second novel, 'An Old Tin Can', which is to be the first in a series based in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. They feature a Jewish detective posted to Belfast and a group of oddball policemen sent to a section they call 'The Squad'. Themes around identity, murder (often serial killers) and biscuits persist. He is published by SpellBound Books Ltd Future books in the Harry and The Squad novels will be 'Dead On' and then 'Never A Happy Ending'.

He has worked as a brush salesman and rent collector, made sound effects for BBC Radio and been a tax inspector and occasional actor. He writes regular theatre reviews for StageTalk Magazine and Bristol 24/7.