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The Blackbird: The heart-pounding Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy book club pick (David Raker Missing Persons, 11)

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Introducing David Raker, who promises Cate and Aiden's parents that he will get to the bottom of it. However, he has no idea how dangerous, twisted and macabre this case will become. From the latest Scandinavian serial killer to Golden Age detective stories, we love our crime novels! But the fire crews and forensic teams who expect to find the charred remains of a husband and wife find something else instead. All across the USA, people are showing up dead. The deaths don't appear to be connected in any way until one particular death occurs and gets the Secretary of Defense's attention. He arranges for a task force to investigate. Cate was a talented photographer and when Raker visits the Gascoignes’ home with Cate’s sister, Georgia, he discovers that she was working on a new project focusing on the victims of unsolved murders. Could that have had a bearing upon her death? And what might the mysterious ‘dunes’, overheard by Georgia in a hurried phone conversation, have to do with it?

THE BLACKBIRD - TIM WEAVER | Bestselling author

The impact should kill them. And if the impact doesn’t, the fire will: seconds after it comes to rest, the Land Rover bursts into flames. By the time the emergency services arrive, it’s an inferno. Missing persons investigator David Raker is hired by Rebekah to find out if the letter is actually from her mother - and soon makes a connection to the Brenners.Meanwhile, over in the wilds of Wales, Raker’s fugitive friend Colm Healy has problems of his own – someone is taking an interest in him, and that’s a big no-no for n ex-cop who must live his life under the radar. But he’s lonely and vulnerable, and could be about to make a huge mistake… As if Raker doesn’t have enough on his plate! Fans of this series know Raker to be a dogged and intuitive investigator, who will single-mindedly burrow away at the case in hand until he begins to find answers, but this time he hits dead end after dead end. Wherever the Gascoignes went, someone out there doesn’t want them found. And then there’s the mystery of the two witnesses to the crash, who both gave suspiciously word perfect descriptions of what happened, and seem to have unusual changes of character afterwards. As the death toll rises, Raker flounders in the dark. On the night Tom Brenner and his nine-year-old son Leo visit the Seven Peaks theme park, they head straight for the ghost house. They go in. But they don't come out.

The Blackbird by Tim Weaver | Waterstones

When Rebekah Murphy was three, her mother walked out and never returned. Nearly four decades on, Fiona Murphy is still missing. Until a letter arrives in the post, claiming to be from Fiona. Tim Weaver is an English novelist born in 1977 in Bath, England. He is a former student of Norton Hill School. He later became a journalist, a career in which he grew rapidly. He was a celebrated video games journalist and magazine editor before he switched to novel authoring and the father of one daughter has written several crime thriller novels which have been read far and wide. He lives with his family near Bath, England. And with his closest ally under arrest and about to reveal some truths of his own, the danger to Raker is coming from all sides . . . Grips like a vice and twists like a rollercoaster. Impossibly clever. Impossible to put down' CHRIS WHITAKERAs 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. In summary, the sinuous plot takes us through toe-curling and fist clenching violence scenes and we feel David Raker go through the normal vicissitudes of life as he grows. The mystery and suspense in the entire novel is awesome. There’s anther dogged missing persons investigator as protagonist in Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner.

The Blackbird: The heart-pounding Sunday Times bestseller The Blackbird: The heart-pounding Sunday Times bestseller

Missing persons investigator David Raker has solved too many impossible cases. He knows that behind every disappearance lies a dark tale waiting to be uncovered.The master of clever, unpredictable plots. The Last Goodbye floored me with its perfectly executed twists and tense, original premise' CLAIRE DOUGLAS

Tim Weaver - Book Series In Order Tim Weaver - Book Series In Order

Any issues with the book list you are seeing? Or is there an author or series we don’t have? Let me know! The 10th anniversary of 9/11 is still months away, but as this story opens the date is already playing on the minds of New Yorkers. Archer Landis is a successful Manhattan architect, working the room at a high-profile Midtown reception. But once Archer’s glad handing has garnered enough useful witnesses, he quietly departs, grabs a cab and heads to the Chelsea apartment of his girlfriend, Julia. It’s a mistake – and one that is about to test Archer’s courage to the very limit. Architect of Courage by novelist and Crime Fiction Lover reviewer Victoria Weisfeld comes out on 4 June. With the growing popularity of Tim’s novels and given that he now writes full time, he is poised for great success. A case in point, Fall from Grace was the second biggest selling book in England the week in which it was released and Tim’s works has been nominated for a National Book Award and for the Crime Writer’s Association Dagger. Tim Weaver is a master of the crime genre. You'll be gripped by the intricate plotting and whiplash- inducing twists. I couldn't look away' GILLY MACMILLANOn their way to dinner one evening, the couple is captured on CCTV laughing away in their car, before it plunges down a 90-foot ravine and bursts into flames. The fire crew arrives soon after expecting to find their bodies but they are faced with an impossible scenario. Cate and Aiden have disappeared. Numerous conspiracy theories ensue but the case goes unresolved for 2 years. CCTV footage captures Cate and Aiden Gascoigne driving home seconds before their car plunges into a ravine and explodes. A superb twisty crime thriller - writing at its very best. Will keep you on the edge of your seat and guessing right up to the end' 5***** Reader Review

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