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Now, her husband has lost his job, the children are bullied at school, and someone is prowling around the garden at night. Instead he’s been pulled into a 20-year-old cold case. Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the definitive collection of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and four collections of short stories.
And, exclusively for Audible, Stephen has written and narrated eight insightful introductions, one for each title. Photographer Isla Wilson is thrilled she's landed her dream job, but the clients who hired her are getting stranger by the day. It sounded so perfect—a month's assignment at the lush Scottish Highlands property of architect Alban McGregor, and his wife, Jessica. But in the woods, there's a playhouse with a chilling history. Two years ago, the McGregors' daughter Elodie was abducted and then died in that playhouse. The townspeople insist her abductor had to be a stranger in their town.
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Metres away, the drowned body of another girl is found on an isolated beach. And all this on a small stretch of land where, nearly 10 years ago, the shocking disappearance of a young girl remains an open case. Yes - a disappointment on this occasion but not one which will stop me from reading future Tim Weaver stories. But by the next morning, they had disappeared without a trace. Colm Healy made a name for himself as one of the Met's best detectives—until a cold case involving the killing of a mother and her twin daughters destroyed his career, his family and his life.
If it is not my favourite I have to say that a less than favourite Tim Weaver book is far better than many books I read! A must for fans however newcomers should probably start earlier in the series to get to know the characters better. For me Tim Weaver remains one of the best UK authors of such thrillers. I have heard so many good things about Tim Weaver's series featuring missing person investigator, David Raker, that I finally decided to try it, this is the 10th addition.
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But then the families of the missing turn to investigator David Raker - and their obsession becomes his. Paige Barrett was living her dream as a journalist in New York City, racking up bylines as a staff writer at The Razor, a cutting-edge online magazine. But when she’s suddenly fired from her job and dumped by her boyfriend, she finds herself back home in the quaint seaside town of Shoreham, Florida, waiting tables and living in her sister’s guesthouse. Restless and itching for something meaningful to occupy her time, she decides to launch a true-crime podcast about the death of Jessica Cady, a beloved teacher who died mysteriously 20 years earlier.
As the only nine people living there, they've become close friends as well as neighbours. Except those photographs will be the last record of any of them. By the next morning, the whole village has vanished. As the only nine people living there, they’ve become close friends as well as neighbours. One of the most notable works by Tim Weaver is the David Raker missing persons series.
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The total disappearance of a group of people is an interesting premise. It’s sad that Mr. Weaver squandered his idea with way too much detail, lots of it superfluous to the main narrative. This murder mystery was initially really gripping – a community of 9 neighbours in the hamlet of Blackgale has disappeared, totally and without leaving any trace whatsoever. For a moment, as I looked at him, he was perfectly framed, his parents’ house behind him, the grass too long out front, weeds running rampant, the dark windows giving just a hint of the empty hallways within.
This is one assignment that David Raker, a missing persons investigator, doesn’t want to undertake for the simple reason that it’s a pointless mistaken identity case. No One Home by Tim Weaver is the latest missing persons thriller starring David Raker. In this gripping page turner, Raker investigates the disappearance of an entire village after a Halloween game of hide and seek. As investigations get underway, the plot of the story thickens, curls and intrigues. Just like in Chasing The Dead, Megan’s secrets are not to be disclosed, and they can actually cost Raker’s life. Raker finds out that there is no substance in the allegations made about Megan’s disappearance- everything was cooked.
Several years later some of their families contact David Raker, to see if he can succeed where the police have failed. It turns out that, although I’m sure there were details I didn’t pick up on from not having read the previous 9 novels, they’re not essential to enjoy this brilliantly crafted, complex and intriguing novel. Having read and reviewed so many of Raker books it is hard to come up with new words to describe the excellent characters that Weaver writes. Raker is certainly one of my few favourite UK characters these days and remains very good. The other characters are well worked in the main - you even get a reasonable feel for some of the people who are missing. This is the 10th book in the David Raker series by author Tim Weaver.
In The Dead Tracks, David Raker is looking for Megan, a serial killer. In Vanished, a man disappears while on a London underground train while in the Fall from Grace, a missing former metropolitan police officer is being looked for. Robert Raker is a missing person investigator and is asked to find answers. Running in tandem with this story is a murder mystery set in America about a suicide/ murder investigation. Jo Kader, is a lovely detective, fighting against sexism in 1980's L.A. And it does make uncomfortable reading for all of us females that experienced such treatment back then.
He is only eventually persuaded to but his old friend Healy . Tim Weaver now officially holds the record for the book that grabbed me the quickest. It had me on page one and that's a true rarity. The tenth private investigator David Raker instalment takes place around the festival of Halloween which right away creates an ominous, tense atmosphere and this underpins the entirety of the novel. What began as a fun, scary celebration ends in the disappearance of the whole population of the village of Black Gale. Having gotten no closer to the truth about what happened to their relatives a group of families contact Raker, an expert in missing persons, in the hope that he can help.
He told me over the phone that he’d been trying to keep the house together, the lawn mowed, the rooms tidy, but it was hard when even the process of unlocking the front door hurt. His parents had been gone two and a half years, with no answers and no trace. His mouth flattened – an attempt to appear stoic – and then his eyes instantly betrayed him as he looked at their home again. He started to blink a little faster, obviously not wanting to stand here, in front of me, in tears.
The premise of this book was so intriguing, I was really excited to start reading it, but I lost interest very quickly. I actually almost DNF’d this book a couple of times, but I don’t like not finishing books so I stuck with it in the hopes that it would grow on me. I can’t pinpoint the exact reasons why I didn’t enjoy this story.
The pace of this book will give you paper cuts you’re turning the pages so fast, no joke, it is so, so good. You are an innocent party on this reading rollercoaster, so please sit back and enjoy the ride. Oh, and you might want to cancel any plans when you open the first page. As I said at the start this is an unusual story - how can an entire village/hamlet go missing and leave no trace. However that is what Raker does - he solves these sort of cases though never one quite like this before. In the end I don't think I was fully convinced by this story compared to some in the series.
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