Vanished: A David Raker Mystery (David Raker Mysteries)

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So, in summary, the passive writing and extraneous telling need weeding out. As do the jumps between scenes and characters that happen with no warning. The final quarter of the book needs tightening up and shortening, and overall could do with a lot less character confessions, guesses, and monologues to speed up the pace. In “Vanished” the thrilling and gripping third novel in the “David Raker” series, the intrepid investigator has been hired by Julia Wren to find her husband Sam who’s been missing for six months after taking the Underground Subway one morning and never getting off. Sam having taken no cash or clothes, and his movement not recorded on the subway’s cameras, Raker has few clues to go on. Yet as he interviews family, friends and work colleagues he begins to uncover a very troubled and secretive man who may have made connections that have gotten him into more trouble than he ever expected.

A fluent and assured piece of crime fiction . . . Tim Weaver ties in the apparently divergent events with convincing ease' Crime Fiction Lover Someone is trying to kill Rebekah Murphy because she knows a secret but doesn’t know what it is. She is trapped on an abandoned island cut off from her family and friends with someone trying to hunt her down and kill her. She is desperately trying to work out what she knows, who is actually trying to kill her and why is no one looking for her. 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. This is one of several novels featuring the character David Raker, which I didn’t realise before I read the book, and you know what? it doesn’t make one bit of difference, the book is a complete stand alone read. Naming himself Richard Kite, he spends the next ten months desperately trying to find out who he is. But despite media appeals and the efforts of the police, no one knows him.Poutavá obálka knihy Ztracené střípky vyloženě nutí člověka, aby po knize sáhl. Kor, když si na obalu můžeme přečíst: “Nová hvězda moderního thrilleru.” To vše značí, že se máme na co těšit, pokud se do knihy pustíme.

Moreover, the personal side of the tale continued to grow. I expected there to be more relating to the past book, about Colm, yet such a thing did not happen. That story was briefly mentioned, only one real aspect of it continuing on. Not the Colm aspect, the aftereffect of the events on David. As a person, throughout the books, he has really grown. I was crossing my fingers for certain things to happen in this one, for things to go a certain way… but to say anything specific about how I feel will tell you too much. Just know that if you’re really interested in the personal life of David things shift some in this book. Nine months later, Leonard's family turn to David Raker - a missing persons investigator with a gift for finding the lost. But nothing can prepare Raker for what he's about to uncover. At this point she discovers that the last ferry to the island for the winter was on 30th October, not 31st October as Johnny had mentioned. You never find out why Johnny lied about this and you never find out whose grave it was under the roots of the tree that they saw when they found the historians body. We flit between present day Rebekah and her struggles, to past happenings in her life that gives us context to her current circumstances. We also see chapters from the perspective of Detective Travis searching for a missing artist. With two seemingly disparate protagonists, Missing Pieces had me intrigued from the offset, and I wanted to read on to find out how the pairs lives would converge and why.

Gosh I devoured this. Utterly addictive, moving between before and now, it is completely unpredictable throughout, you never know quite what will happen next. As all the missing pieces of the title start coming together to form a cohesive reality, the plotting is genius and the truth is stunning in its complexity. Tim Weaver writes books so meticulously researched that the reader is educated as well as entertained, enthralled and intrigued -- Liz Nugent * Sunday Times bestselling author of Lying in Wait * But the smile was just a lie, a piece of tracing paper I could see right through; and as he stood there, he tilted his head and looked at me, eyes darting from one point of my body to the next, like a butcher sizing up a carcass.

A fluent and assured piece of crime fiction . . . Tim Weaver ties in the apparently divergent events with convincing ease * Crime Fiction Lover * Tim Weaver. Το Λονδίνο τελικά δεν έχει τίποτα να ζηλέψει από την Αμερική ως προς τους δολοφόνους, τη βία και τα σκοτεινά μονοπάτια… Tim Weaver να τον γνωρίσαμε σχετικά πρόσφατα, αλλά έχει ήδη αποκτήσει φανατικό κοινό. Τα βιβλία του, τρία μέχρι στιγμής κυκλοφορούν από τις εκδόσεις Bell, αποτελούν τη σειρά Υποθέσεις Εξαφανισμένων Προσώπων με πρωταγωνιστή τον ερευνητή Ντέιβιντ Ρέικερ και αποτελούν αυτοτελείς υποθέσεις με κοινό χαρακτηριστικό ότι σε καθένα απ΄ αυτά υπάρχει ένα εξαφανισμένο πρόσωπο που το αναζητά κάποιος. An outstanding book, absolutely superb. The solution reminded me of a Russian Doll, where you take one apart to find another one still to be opened' 5***** Reader Review Missing persons investigator David Raker is an expert in locating the lost. So when he's hired by Maggie, he knows that in every disappearance - however impossible it seems - there's an answer.

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Overall though, despite the negatives, this is a good, solid thriller which is well written and well worth reading. Physically, I feel fine." The first of the lies: I wasn't grounded by the injury, but I could feel it most days. A dull ache. A sharp pain. If I told her exactly how I was feeling, it returned us to the point at which we'd parted: my job, its risks, the people I tried to find, and how she failed to understand the reasons why. From her side there was no failure to understand anything. After all, what was there to understand about a job that ended up with me on an operating table? To her, to most people, it was insane: a job full of uncalculated risk. To me, it was everything that mattered. An Interview with Tim Weaver". The Darley Anderson Blog. 1 August 2012 . Retrieved 1 September 2013.

And worse, in trying to find Emily's missing family, he might just have made himself the next target . . . Showcases Tim Weaver's trademark clever and original plotting. Twisty, unpredictable and so gripping. That ending will stay with me for a long time. A brilliant book!' CLAIRE DOUGLAS, bestselling author of JUST LIKE THE OTHER GIRLS Ono što mi je bilo naj, naj, najbolje u ovom tekstu je vještina kojom me autor uspio prevariti i to toliko da posumnjam kako je ovo 100% fikcija. Doista, u jednom sam se trenutku našla kako guglam ime iz romana u potrazi za informacijama da vidim je li se Weaver možda oslonio na neku stvarnu osobu pri pisanju romana. Nevjerojatna retro inspiracija i iznimna mašta proizvele su fenomenalan, iznimno kompleksan tekst (za jedan "puki krimić") koji je djeluje kao da je stvaran. The author is again writing about his favourite topic, missing people. But this time the search is not for someone. We, the readers are with that missing person, Rebekah, the principal character, as she desperately tries to survive on an island deserted out of season, out of communication, bitterly cold and a hundred miles out from Long Island, hoping that she will be found. 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.

Rebekah, isolated on the island, is doing everything she can to survive and return to her children. She presumes she will be missed but needs to stay fit mentally and physically. She also wants to work out just why she is in this position - is there something in her past that might provide a clue?