THE DEBUT THRILLER IN THE BESTSELLING DAVID RAKER MISSING PERSONS SERIES, PERFECT FOR FANS OF MO HAYDER, LINWOOD BARCLAY AND MICHAEL CONNELLY
One year ago, Alex Towne's body was found.
One month ago, his mother saw him on the street.
One week ago, David Raker agreed to look for him.
Now he wishes he hadn't.
Mary Towne's son, Alex, went missing six years ago. Five years later he finally turned up - as a corpse in a car wreck. Missing persons investigator David Raker doesn't want the work: it's clearly a sad but hopeless case of mistaken identity brought to him by a woman unable to let go of her son. But haunted by a loss of his own, Raker reluctantly agrees.
Big mistake.
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.
Soon Raker will discover that there are things far worse than death . . .
Praise for Tim Weaver:
'Weaver has delivered another cracking crime thriller' Daily Mail
'I couldn't put it down' The Sun
'Weaver's books get better each time - tense, complex, written with flair as well as care' Guardian
'The reader is educated as well as entertained, enthralled and intrigued. David Raker is a most complex and engaging investigator, each case leaving its mark on his soul, and ours' Sunday Times bestselling author Liz Nugent
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781405912693
Number of pages: 480
Weight: 332 g
Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 30 mm
Praise for Tim Weaver - -
Weaver's books get better each time - tense, complex, written with flair as well as care - Guardian
The writing is beautiful and the plot so cleverly constructed I never guessed any of the twists - Sunday Times bestselling author of Local Girl Missing
It had me racing to the end - Sunday Times bestselling author of The Widow
Terrific - Sunday Times
I couldn't put it down - Sun
Weaver has become one of this country's most respected, bestselling crime writers, and he fully deserves to be . . . Catch him at once - Daily Mail
The rising star of British crime - Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of the DC Max Wolfe series
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
A dark, complex and visceral read - Financial Times
Fans of Mo Hayder will be in seventh hell - Guardian
The story-telling is little short of brilliant - Crime Fiction Lover
Perfect plotting, great characterisation, and the kind of payoff that a thriller of this calibre deserves - Bookgeeks
It has been a long time since I have read a book in one sitting - this book was a true page turner from start to finish. Constant twists and turns and when you think you know whodunnit....you dont! I often like to... More
Having already read the two most recent books in this fantastic series, namely You Were Gone and No One Home, I decided to go right back to the very beginning with Chasing the Dead. I thought it perhaps wouldn't... More
This showed promise at the start but the gratuitous violence, poor writing style, poor content totally unbelievable and contrived ending left me appalled.
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