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Two seemingly unrelated cases of disappearance form the focus of this latest novel. Tom Preacher and his son Leo mysteriously disappeared at a theme park, CCTV cameras recorded them both entering the ghost house but they never reappeared. The other case is the sudden departure of Rebekah Murphy’s mother when she was just a child. Rebekah seeks answers to her mother’s disappearance and asks for the help of missing persons investigator David Raker who soon discovers that these cases are not unrelated after all. While Raker travels far and wide in pursuit of Fiona, pulling in favours from some frankly reluctant sources and effectively putting himself in danger, Healy is trapped behind bars with plenty of time to ponder upon his current situation and how everything came to this pretty pass. As the walls start to close in, so does an overweening sense of danger – and when someone offers him a juicy get-out-of-jail card, he is sorely tempted to snatch it with both hands. But what if his freedom comes at too high a price?
Master of the crime thriller Tim Weaver has returned with his latest – and possibly best – in the David Raker series. Timweaverbooks.Com". Timweaverbooks.tumblr.com . Retrieved 1 September 2013. We had a very long and traumatic battle to have our daughter (and) a lot of Chasing the Dead – a lot of the beginning of that first book where (David Raker) is talking about how he feels about his wife – came out of that sense of loss. Healy is in prison and Raker is desparate to speak to him as the Police are pushing him for information following Healy faking his own death, and Raker helping him with other stuff. But will he reach him in time? I've read most of the David Raker series and really enjoyed all of them so was thrilled to have the opportunity to read The Last Goodbye, number 12 in the series.This latest missing person case is another nonstop thrill ride with a seamless plot which just keeps on giving in this highly engaging series, I highly recommend the whole series. Weaver has a real skill of writing descriptively, bringing a variety of scenes to life, without the reader realising, placing the reader there in the story. ONE DEVASTATING SECRET: At first, the two disappearances - decades apart - seem unrelated. But as Raker digs deeper, he starts to unravel an elaborate history of lies binding the cases together. Worse, there's someone terrifying hiding in the shadows - and they're hoping the truth never comes out....
He had a New York accent, unlike Rebekah: despite living in the US since she was eighteen, she still spoke like a Brit, even if some of her words and phrasing had become heavily Americanized. As if sensing my confusion, she said, ‘I didn’t mean to throw you. Frank coming with me was kind of a last-minute decision.’ The fates of the two men are inextricably linked, although they vehemently deny any previous friendship. But while Healy stews behind bars, Raker has other fish to fry, courtesy of someone else we became acquainted with in the previous book. Rebekah Murphy is a Brit now living in New York – where the pair first met. She is in the UK to ask for Raker’s help to find her mother, who walked out of the family home in Cambridge nearly 40 years ago and vanished into thin air. Now Rebekah has started to receive condolence cards from her mother – or are they from someone else entirely? Already under great risk due to his past actions, Raker’s latest investigations prove more dangerous than even he could ever envisage, as his search grid unwittingly begins to entwine with perhaps his most vicious foe ever. A relic of a monstrous regime, the poisonous point of a broken spear. Tim Weaver (8 May 2010). "Trying hard to have a baby | Life and style". The Guardian . Retrieved 1 September 2013. Briefly, in the present Tom Preacher and his son Leo recently disappeared at a Theme park, seen entering a ride but never reappeared. Raker is approached by Rebekah whose mother Fiona vanished nearly forty years earlier. However, recently Rebekah has received cards which appear to have come from her mother. The search for both Fiona and a friend Jennifer who went missing at the same time turns into a race against time as Raker discovers some very nasty individuals hiding hideous secrets. Are the two case’s connected?
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Raker is asked to help Rebekah who is trying to find out what happened to her Mum who has been missing since 1985. There is also a strand of the plot which relates to David’s friend Healy, now in prison for faking his own death. The police are desperate to make him incriminate Raker who has been helping him stay off grid. From the latest Scandinavian serial killer to Golden Age detective stories, we love our crime novels! Raker is pulled in to investigate what happened all those years ago and takes us through a thrilling ride.
Book 12 in the David Raker Series and another interesting case, actually two cases, for missing person person specialist Raker. He also has to deal with the worry about his closest colleague, Healey, who is under arrest in prison and under pressure to tell the police about his and Raker’s activities. Raker is a great character and as always well written and well plotted this was a one day read for me as I had to know! Tim Weaver really is the ultimate ‘just one more chapter’ author. Every chapter leaves you on a cliff hanger or questioning what you thought you knew and you just have to keep reading! The master of clever, unpredictable plots. The Last Goodbye floored me with its perfectly executed twists and tense, original premise' CLAIRE DOUGLAS Would have been 5 stars, but the outrageous coincidences which led to the denouement was a little too much, I thought.At the country's newest theme park, Tom Preacher and his son Leo are queuing for the ghost house. CCTV cameras record them entering - but they never exit. No one can find them inside - and no one can explain how they vanished.
In September 2015, Weaver wrote and presented an eight-part podcast series called Missing, looking into how and why people disappear. [14] It was selected by iTunes as one of the best podcasts of 2015. [15] In August 2016, Weaver recorded three further episodes. I’m a big David Raker fan and have read all of this authors previous books about as well as a stand alone which introduced Rebekah as a character. In this novel Rebekah and David come together as she hires him to look into her mother’s disappearance. Fiona Murphy walked out on Rebekah, her father and her brothers nearly 40 years earlier when Rebekah was 3. The main mystery revolves around a mother called Fiona who went missing in 1985. Early in the book, we are informed by a loved one that she 'likes to hurt people'. Brilliant, I thought! Let's get into the nitty-gritty ethics of realistic female psychopaths! Let's have David wonder if he should really spend all this time chasing after a woman who, by all counts, seems to have been an absolutely awful human being!This is Raker 12. I’ve read them all and never got anywhere near the twists so this time I thought just relax and go with the flow and maybe that's the secret because this time I managed to figure out one small twist. Very proud of myself! Grips like a vice and twists like a rollercoaster. The Last Goodbye is impossibly clever and impossible to put down…" –Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of 'We Begin At The End' Haunting, gripping, fast paced and complex, The Last Goodbye is a thriller with heart. I finished it with a huge sense of gratitude that it is a series and that it will not be the last I will be meeting the brilliant, driven, astute yet beautifully flawed David Raker. -- FEMI KAYODE Another half-minute and the people who’d been standing behind the mother and the twins come out of the ride. Then the ones behind them, then the ones behind them. It’s like a conveyor belt of people, one after the next, heading in and then coming out. Healy is in a difficult situation and wrestles with his conscience, trying to keep Raker safe but knowing that it might be at the expense of his own life.
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