Chasing the Dead: 1 (David Raker Mystery)

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A gripping plot, a creepy atmosphere and a mystic aura over it. At some point though I started to worry that it would turn into a paranormal story, so weird it was! Thanks God, no genre changing. But still, I found the second part of the book a bit too much: there were just TOO MANY life-threatening situations for one person in one book. I am glad that David managed to escape every time he was almost killed, but it started to get on my nerves and the whole "OMG" and "THANKS GOD HE DID IT AGAIN" became less credible. Tim Weaver writes books so meticulously researched that the reader is educated as well as entertained, enthralled and intrigued * Sunday Times bestselling author of Lying in Wait * Ayo: In Chasing The Dead there is a great sense of place, in this case South Africa. How important was this and what is your relationship with South Africa? David Raker, a former journalist and now a missing persons investigator, who is still mourning for the loss of his beloved wife, is asked to look into disappearance and mysterious death of Alex Towne. During the investigation David bumped into much bigger mystery than just a disappearance and thereby put his life in acute danger.

But what happens when that crushing realisation doesn't come? That is what happens to Mary. She sees her son, who has been declared dead and whom she has buried, and she follows him.....then loses him. Once again the story was well crafted and paced superbly. Snippets of information is revealed steadily and I had fun trying to work things out before it was revealed to me. While I didn't see some twists coming there was one thing that instantly set warning sirens off in my head. I wasn't 100% accurate but I did have some idea of what was coming.Skillfully Tim Weaver has developed complex and compelling characters in this novel like observant, resourceful and tenacious David Raker who never gives up his search for Megan; police officer Colm Healey plagued by the loss of his daughter is vengeful, unpredictable, arrogant and resentful; and secretive Megan Carver, the unlikely runaway who’s a smart student and obedient daughter. As he continues with the investigations, he realizes that there was more to Alex’s life than met the eye. Indeed, Alex was not the innocent person that his mother knew, as his life was full of sinister events whose secrecy was guarded by men who would do anything to ensure that the secrets were not disclosed, including killing anyone who insisted on knowing them. David is later to learn that death is not the worst thing that can happen to a person. What I enjoyed most about “Chasing the Dead” was the strong sense of place, the willingness to confront the seedy and unpleasant without wallowing in it and mastery of pace shown in the writing and the plotting.

Specsavers National Book Award – Crime & Thriller of the Year". nationalbookawards.co.uk/. 18 November 2013 . Retrieved 18 November 2013.Vanished” (Εξαφανισμένος/η). Κι ευτυχώς ακολουθούν πολλά ακόμη (11 στο σύνολο), για να έχουμε να περιμένουμε! Weaver ξεπέρασε των εαυτό του. Η γραφή του εξελίχθηκε σοβαρά και κατάφερε να μας προσφέρει ένα θρίλερ που διαβάζεται απνευστί και σε αφήνει άναυδο. Η ιστορία συνοπτικά έχει ως εξής: Ο Ντέιβιντ Ρέικερ, πρώην δημοσιογράφος και νυν ερευνητής εξαφανισμένων προσώπων, προσλαμβάνεται από τους γονείς ενός 17χρονου κοριτσιού, της Μέγκαν, η οποία έχει εδώ και 7 μήνες εξαφανιστεί, χωρίς η αστυνομία να μπορεί να βρει το παραμικρό ίχνος για την τύχη της. Tim: I have a character arc planned out for Raker, which will see him through the first four books. Beyond that, I think it’s definitely a case of letting it flow! As before looking forward to seeing where Weaver takes this next. Learning more about the main character's life and how he's moving forward after a tragic loss is the obvious highlight but thankfully the cases he's working on aren't just sub-par filler and do keep me intrigued. Raker is once again enlisted by a family whose teenage daughter has gone missing. Using some unorthodox and sometimes illegal investigative techniques allows Raker to follow some seemingly random but ultimately connected leads to an unsolved case involving Milton Sykes who allegedly and notoriously murdered 13 girls a century before. It's remarkable how Raker is able to find these leads despite the police having a dedicated task force searching for the same missing girl. Then there are more missing girls, a paranoid Russian criminal and his personal plastic surgeon, and a dead police officer. But how are all these characters connected?

For as he digs deeper, he discovers that Alex's life was not the innocent one his mother believed. Buried in his past are secrets that were never meant to be found - and dark, dangerous men willing to kill to protect them.

Tim Weaver’s David Raker books in order:

Overall, I thought it was all a bit OTT, and I failed totally to connect with the main character. I could not follow his thought processes, could not understand why he made the decisions he did. Weaver's books get better each time - tense, complex . . . written with flair as well as care' Guardian Ayo: What makes a character real for you? Must you work everything out about them before hand or do you just let it flow? Weaver attended Norton Hill School [16] in Midsomer Norton, Somerset. He also describes himself as a "massive, massive football fan", [17] and supports Arsenal and Bath City F.C. Bibliography [ edit ] David Raker novels [ edit ]

Perfect plotting, great characterisation, and the kind of payoff that a thriller of this calibre deserves' Bookgeeks Weaver's tenth book, No One Home, was again selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club on 20 February 2020 [12] and on 15 April 2021, Weaver released his first standalone novel, Missing Pieces. [13] Podcast [ edit ]THE DEBUT THRILLER IN THE BESTSELLING DAVID RAKER MISSING PERSONS SERIES, PERFECT FOR FANS OF MO HAYDER, LINWOOD BARCLAY AND MICHAEL CONNELLY Tim Weaver (8 May 2010). "Trying hard to have a baby | Life and style". The Guardian . Retrieved 1 September 2013. As the story progresses the emotional tension ramps up not only as he draws closer to solving the case but as David, haunted by the loss of his wife is faced with his growing attraction to neighbour and solicitor Liz who feels his job as a missing persons investigator stems from trying to “plug up the holes in the world”, to stop others suffering the pain, grief and helplessness he’s undergone with his wife Derryn’s death. Facing the truth of her words, David begins to put aside his loneliness and to live again, looking to the one woman who has comforted, encouraged and supported him. This is a relationship that will be interesting to follow in the other books in the series to see if it survives. The rising star of British crime * Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of the DC Max Wolfe series *