Oh Mr. Weaver you got me good with a few of those twisty moments!

It's rare that I have to admit that I did not see that coming. But that is precisely number one Weaver's talent: he writes stores that make sense in retrospect, but during that first read put you right into the thick of it with the protagonist, squeezing meaning out of every clue and desperately looking for connections. While this may seem a simple description of crime fiction in general, it doesn't usually work out quite that. Anyone who reads a lot of these kinds of books comes to feel the pattern within them, Chekhov's gun is in every character, offhand comment, piece of evidence... In most cases, I'm pretty sure what's going to happen or whoddidit. Tv shows and films are even easier by the very nature of their medium. But Weaver writes outside these boxes. He doesn't even show us the gun. We investigate. It's exciting, and added to the detailed but pacey writing style, these books are a winner of a choice.31 s Gary2,734 396

This is the 6th book in the excellent David Raker series by author Tim Weaver.

David Raker specialises in searching for missing persons and is normally called up on when all the Police efforts have come to a screeching halt. One case that has haunted both Raker and associate Colm Healy is a case that changed Healy the ex Met detective for ever. The unsolved murders of a mother and her twin daughters that finished his career and ruined his family life. Now Colm Healy is asking David Raker to help solve the case that has caused him so much anguish and threatens to become Raker's toughest job yet.

The usual helping's of twists and turns make this another excellent read. Great characters and teasing story-lines that are so well written. Excellent series that needs to be read from book 1 to fully appreciate.

23 s Liz Barnsley3,562 1,045

OH MY GOD THIS BOOK! Emotional overload or what. I'm really wrung out! Anyway, I shall be joint reviewing this with Christine (Northern Crime) at a later date in the form of a conversation as we've been buddy reading it with much shrieking today. In the meantime though if you HAVENT read the Raker series what are you waiting for? GO GO


Collapses.addictive-thrillers best-series-ever-written bloody-marvellous ...more14 s ReadAlongWithSue ??. ??2,829 371



So why haven't I read one of Tim Weavers books before? That's going to change!

I have been so enthralled and so deeply enmeshed in this book it would have been hard pressed to move me in an earthquake.

This really did grab me right from the start.

The storyline in this is so good, its nothing that I expected and much more, very much more.

I thought it was going to be all about this detective who couldn't pull away from an unsolved crime [see authors blurb description] but its more detailed than this and included the detective himself.

This has so much RAW emotion inside it, its unreal, I didn't expect to feel anything the emotions I felt, not at all.

The detective becomes a missing person and you are on the edge of this for its entirety so, turn your phone off, don't answer the door, put up a DO NOT BE DISTURBED sign on your location. You really need to read this from start to finish. My kindle said 11 hours........so either get someone else to cook dinner, throw something in the slow cooker and get them to help themselves or get them to phone for take out.

Did I love this? You bet.

If you've not read a book by this author can I urge you to read this.

I so want to read the rest of the Rake series.

Let me thank the author for bringing such a fab book my way and to Penguin UK - Michael Joseph via Net Galley as without this, I may have missed a superb enthralling rememerable book.family-saga net-galley part-of-series14 s Sibel Gandy1,002 70

3,5 / 5
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