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David Raker #1-3
David Raker Series 1-3: 3 Books Collection Set By Tim Weaver
The first three thrillers in the stunning David Raker series - for the first time in one unique bundle.
Chasing the Dead
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.
He'll wish 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.
The Dead Tracks
Seventeen-year-old Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. A straight-A student from a happy home, she studied hard and rarely got into trouble. Six months on, she's never been found. David Raker knows what it's like to grieve. He knows the shadowy world of the lost too. So, when he's hired by Megan's parents to find out what happened, he recognizes their pain - but knows that the darkest secrets can be buried deep. And Megan's secrets could cost him his life.
Vanished
For millions of Londoners, the morning of 17 December is just like any other. But not for Sam Wren. An hour after leaving home, he gets onto a tube train - and never gets off again. No eyewitnesses. No trace of him on security cameras. Six months later, he's still missing. Out of options and desperate for answers, Sam's wife Julia hires David Raker to track him down. Raker has made a career out of finding the lost. He knows how they think. And, in missing person cases, the only certainty is that everyone has something to hide.
But in this case the secrets go deeper than anyone imagined . . .
Chasing the Dead
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.
He'll wish 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.
The Dead Tracks
Seventeen-year-old Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. A straight-A student from a happy home, she studied hard and rarely got into trouble. Six months on, she's never been found. David Raker knows what it's like to grieve. He knows the shadowy world of the lost too. So, when he's hired by Megan's parents to find out what happened, he recognizes their pain - but knows that the darkest secrets can be buried deep. And Megan's secrets could cost him his life.
Vanished
For millions of Londoners, the morning of 17 December is just like any other. But not for Sam Wren. An hour after leaving home, he gets onto a tube train - and never gets off again. No eyewitnesses. No trace of him on security cameras. Six months later, he's still missing. Out of options and desperate for answers, Sam's wife Julia hires David Raker to track him down. Raker has made a career out of finding the lost. He knows how they think. And, in missing person cases, the only certainty is that everyone has something to hide.
But in this case the secrets go deeper than anyone imagined . . .
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Tim Weaver
53 books1,629 followersTim Weaver is the Sunday Times Top 3 bestselling author of the David Raker missing persons series, the standalone thriller, Missing Pieces, and the novella collection, The Shadow at the Door. His novels have been selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club four times, and his work has been nominated for a National Book Award and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. He is currently developing an original TV drama with the team behind Line of Duty. He lives near Bath in the UK. Find out more about Tim and his writing at www.timweaverbooks.com.
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October 20, 2015
So often, I find new authors through buying books when they’re in an offer. Such is the case with Tim Weaver and the David Raker series.
I picked up one of the later books in the series, only to realise my mistake once I was at home. Of course, what else could I do but buy those I was missing? So, I jumped in. With the first book I was tentative, as I wasn’t sure whether or not I would enjoy it (even though the ideas of the later books really pulled me in). In retrospect, it was a silly thought to have in my head.
Weaver has created a wonderful character and throughout the series we deal with so many different things. Without a doubt, the David Raker series is well worth a read.
I picked up one of the later books in the series, only to realise my mistake once I was at home. Of course, what else could I do but buy those I was missing? So, I jumped in. With the first book I was tentative, as I wasn’t sure whether or not I would enjoy it (even though the ideas of the later books really pulled me in). In retrospect, it was a silly thought to have in my head.
Weaver has created a wonderful character and throughout the series we deal with so many different things. Without a doubt, the David Raker series is well worth a read.
February 25, 2026
TRIGGERS: mentions of drug abuse, alcoholism, drug use; mentions of satanic cultism; religious fervor; faking an illness; mentions and descriptions of a fatal car crash and subsequent injuries; captivity, imprisonment; detailed descriptions of violence, torture, and mental and physical abuse; use of racial slurs; on page suicide; mentions of memory loss, loss of time, brainwashing; mentions of a historic shooting
DNF'd at 17%
1st person, past tense POV
two POV's (to the point where I stopped) -> 1 was David Raker, the other was an unidentified male victim
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Whelp! I had this series on my radar for a long time. I accidentally requested Book 9 on Netgalley thinking it was a solo novel, got declined, and then saw another book by the author that also didn't mention it was part of a series, and got approved. For Book 10. *face palm* So, I went out and bought ALL of the other books in the series. All of them.
Now that I've finally had the time to sit and binge the series, I got as far as 17% of Book 1. And I'm done.
For a start, this book isn't at all what I thought it would be or what it was billed as. The writing is - and I hate to say it, because I hate the word and the implications, but it's the only one that comes to mind - amateurish. It needed a lot more work before being put out into the world, with a harder editor, Alpha readers and beta readers who could point out how slow going the plot was at the start. It needed a punch at the beginning, not a slow simmer.
The book starts with David mourning the loss of his wife. This is fine, good back story, interesting impetus of how he went from a journalist to becoming an (unlicensed!) PI who finds missing people. However, it's a depressing start - and I feel like I can say that, as someone who's had cancer and undergone chemo - and it doesn't do anything for the plot to mention it NOW. On Page 1. This is the kind of back story that should remain in the back, trickled into the plot at appropriate intervals. Except, here we're bombarded with it immediately and then constantly battered over the head with it throughout the rest of the book.
It's been a year since Derryn died and David is struggling to get through the day when a mutual acquaintance Mary arrives at his office to ask for help. Her son Alex disappeared for 5 years, then reappeared a year ago as the victim at a car crash. His car and body were badly burned, to the point where it took 1 1/2 weeks to ID him from his dental records. #RedFlag1
Mary is coming to David because she's absolutely certain that a month ago (or a few, I can't remember) she saw Alex on the street. She's utterly convinced. And instead of being an understanding friend, who doesn't want to upset a grieving mother, who could offer to do a few days of digging to reassure her, David treats her like she's lost her frickin' mind. Instead of being kind, he comes off as completely obnoxious, resulting in this whole back-and-forth of Mary begging, then asking him what would happen if the shoe was on the other foot, because if he claimed to see Derryn on the street, Mary would believe him or at least listen to him, without calling him crazy.
So David is guilt-tripped into investigating Alex's death/disappearance and all kinds of weird things start to happen. He visits Mary at home, to get more information about Alex's life, disappearance and death, and meets her husband Malcolm, who has Alzheimer's. And we know that, because it's drilled into our heads with every slight action, word and movement that Malcolm makes. In fact, it's so stereotypical that it's practically copied out of a medical textbook. #RedFlag2 My mum worked with people with dementia and Alzheimer's and I've been around them my entire life. This is the most basic, bland exploration of the disease that I've ever seen in a book.
Conveniently, one of Alex's ex-roommates from before he disappeared is now a policeman. David asks him for help and, despite his many protestations about potentially losing his job for it, John helps David get access to Alex's files. Then he discovers that - remarkably - another flatmate went missing not long after Alex. Simon was a drug user, who had been kicked out because of Alex, and soon went missing as well. That brings the missing people to two, and David's interest to still below zero.
Suddenly, in the course of his 'investigation', David finds he's not above blackmail, bribery, breaking into an apartment, searching a church, or shooting and kidnapping people. There is, in fact, nothing legal about anything that David has done in the midst of this investigation and I fail to see how any of it will be admissible in court. That's if David doesn't get himself killed before then, because he really does seem to just throw himself head-first into dangerous situations. And the way he talks to people makes me wonder how he's lived this long, because I probably would have killed him myself a long time ago, if I'd been even remotely associated with him and capable of murder. The fact that multiple bad guys have David in their hands and DON'T kill him is actually remarkable.
As a main character, I find David unlikeable, arrogant, egoist, and he's a bit of a pig. The way he interacts with Liz is pretty gross. When she basically offers herself on a platter for him - I can help you, David (gag!) - he looks at her...and all he sees is that she's got breasts, a waist and legs. Amazing that she doesn't have a face, a brain, any good qualities at all that aren't related to sex. Utterly incredible.
Saying that, I also find Liz really creepy. Her interest in David feels superficial and she's quite pushy in her own way. Even the way she phrases it - "You don't have to be alone" and "I can help you" is extremely gag-worthy.
I find him obnoxious and pushy. He has an attitude and a weird was of talking to people that he wants help from. I don't understand his style of humour at all, and I find his way of interacting with suspects/witnesses to be extremely off-putting.
There's a lot - and I mean far too much - of conversational back-and-forth, every time David meets someone new. It's vey limited in emotion, setting the scene or even just purpose. It's just constant lines of:
"What's your name?"
"What's it to you?"
"What's your name?"
"I don't even know you."
"What's your name?"
Like...David, respectfully, give it a f'kin rest! You don't know this person. You literally popped up out of a dark alleyway to interrogate Jade and you have the nerve to ask WHY she's running away from you? Really? Are you that obtuse and self-centered that you can't see how a man suddenly emerging from a dark alley on a late night, might be somewhat concerning to a young woman who is walking home from work alone? Really? And we're supposed to believe you were a journalist???
I mean, it wasn't even like it wasn't intentional. David's POV literally says "I'd be back at seven when she came off her shift - and this time she wouldn't see me coming."
I get that's supposed to be cliffhangery or whatever, but READ THE ROOM, David. That is so f'kin creepy it's unreal.
The plot is extremely slow to take off. There's too much extraneous information and not enough investigation to keep the story flowing. If David actually used more of his contacts or showed more of his investigation on page, that would be something. But when he visits the library - the place Mary last saw Alex - we simply get 1-2 lines that says he went there and found nothing. We don't actually get to see it. The rest of the story is split between David's wild goose chase about this weird satanic cult and snippets of someone being tortured.
Everybody that David meets is odd, rude, belligerent, and only out to hamper his investigation. He doesn't meet one normal person in the entire 17% that I read.
The story is split into parts, and I don't understand why. I get that each part ends with one of the victim's POV scenes, but 1) they're already their own chapter, to separate them from David's POV. 2) they're also in 3rd person, not 1st, which is differentiation enough. 3) in the entire 17% of what I read, we don't know WHO this is, WHERE they are, and NOTHING about their chapters adds anything to the storyline, because it doesn't tell us anything that we don't already know - except that they had their teeth removed, which was something that David's POV already tackled later in the book anyway.
Honestly, unless those POV's changed to show significant clues later, I can't see why they were included, except to introduce violence, torture and some kind of failed attempt at suspense.
Personally, nothing of the plot made sense. There's a suggestion that a victim's teeth were removed so they could be planted at a crime scene to provide a positive ID. Except...you know, they could have just used their 'extensive network' by replacing the dental records? I mean, that would be the first port of call. Why would you resort to removing every single tooth in the mouth, when just one or two would have sufficed?
Then later, a bad guy makes a point of constantly jugging David's attention down, to his feet, while he's tied to a chair. There are multiple instances of super close contact that comes off like something I'd read in an enemies-to-lovers MM Romance. And, for some reason, this bad guy is so fierce, so angry, but he DOESN'T kill David. Why? It's so stupid. There's also an instance where the bad guy shoves a gun into David's mouth, then punches him in the side of the face. 1) Why? 2) That's an illogical combination of awkward movements for the bad guy. 3) if you do this, you're going to lose a few teeth as they clatter off the gun in David's mouth, but David somehow manages to come out of this COMPLETELY UNSCATHED! It makes no sense.
Not to mention that he doesn't once realise that the guy is desperately trying to stop him from seeing the guy's face. And not once does David stop to think that maybe...just maybe...the reason is that he might actually recognise him.
When convenient, the author backtracks to give us information that was never even hinted at before - such as when David returns to his house to freshen up, grab some stuff and recover, only to then (pages later) inform us that he made a vitally important phone call that provides a heap of new information. The story is full of these plot conveniences and contrivances, whenever David needs something that he can't reasonably get himself, such as when Jade falls into his lap and is conveniently so sick of everything that she's ready to tell him everything - or rather, as much as she's willing to, despite the fact that she's literally going to kill herself later, so she COULD have told David EVERYTHING and even pointed him towards someone with more info. Except she didn't, because that would be too easy.
I actually marked down multiple places where I intended to DNF, but I really tried to slog through, because I had two books to read/review for Netgalley.
Overall, I just feel like the entire plot and premise of the book is so unrealistic and grandiose. It's like a B-rated horror movie, or some Batman comic book reject plot. I hate saying that, but it just felt so outlandish and illogical. This cult had a 'massive network' and could relocate people, give them entirely new identities, with apparently unlimited finances, and yet they worked on torture, mind control, and cultism. It screams more failed superhero novel than mystery/thriller. And the fact that David works without ANY actual credentials is extremely problematic, in terms of actually holding the criminals accountable and getting these 'dead' people their lives back. There can be NO real justice, accountability or judicial process when he doesn't even hold a P.I.'s license never mind have any right to be poking about where he is. He's using illegal methods to investigate an illegal crime and there can't be any kind of logical recourse for that, when it ends.
I almost DNF'd at multiple points, but I held on because a spoiler review promised an interesting ending. But, honestly, when I'm not even halfway through a book and it's dragging like a carcass stuck to the back of a lorry, then why would I continue? David is a sleazy, unrealistic PI, who makes a terrible main character. The bad guys are all purposefully shocking, but end up as silly caricatures of comic book villains trapped within an unrealistic plot.
I've just come off reading the entire David Hunter series and maybe that's why I'm reviewing this more harshly, because that series was fantastic and everything I expected THIS series to be. So, if you didn't enjoy David Raker - or if you did - then go check out The Chemistry Of Death
DNF'd at 17%
1st person, past tense POV
two POV's (to the point where I stopped) -> 1 was David Raker, the other was an unidentified male victim
----------
Whelp! I had this series on my radar for a long time. I accidentally requested Book 9 on Netgalley thinking it was a solo novel, got declined, and then saw another book by the author that also didn't mention it was part of a series, and got approved. For Book 10. *face palm* So, I went out and bought ALL of the other books in the series. All of them.
Now that I've finally had the time to sit and binge the series, I got as far as 17% of Book 1. And I'm done.
For a start, this book isn't at all what I thought it would be or what it was billed as. The writing is - and I hate to say it, because I hate the word and the implications, but it's the only one that comes to mind - amateurish. It needed a lot more work before being put out into the world, with a harder editor, Alpha readers and beta readers who could point out how slow going the plot was at the start. It needed a punch at the beginning, not a slow simmer.
The book starts with David mourning the loss of his wife. This is fine, good back story, interesting impetus of how he went from a journalist to becoming an (unlicensed!) PI who finds missing people. However, it's a depressing start - and I feel like I can say that, as someone who's had cancer and undergone chemo - and it doesn't do anything for the plot to mention it NOW. On Page 1. This is the kind of back story that should remain in the back, trickled into the plot at appropriate intervals. Except, here we're bombarded with it immediately and then constantly battered over the head with it throughout the rest of the book.
It's been a year since Derryn died and David is struggling to get through the day when a mutual acquaintance Mary arrives at his office to ask for help. Her son Alex disappeared for 5 years, then reappeared a year ago as the victim at a car crash. His car and body were badly burned, to the point where it took 1 1/2 weeks to ID him from his dental records. #RedFlag1
Mary is coming to David because she's absolutely certain that a month ago (or a few, I can't remember) she saw Alex on the street. She's utterly convinced. And instead of being an understanding friend, who doesn't want to upset a grieving mother, who could offer to do a few days of digging to reassure her, David treats her like she's lost her frickin' mind. Instead of being kind, he comes off as completely obnoxious, resulting in this whole back-and-forth of Mary begging, then asking him what would happen if the shoe was on the other foot, because if he claimed to see Derryn on the street, Mary would believe him or at least listen to him, without calling him crazy.
So David is guilt-tripped into investigating Alex's death/disappearance and all kinds of weird things start to happen. He visits Mary at home, to get more information about Alex's life, disappearance and death, and meets her husband Malcolm, who has Alzheimer's. And we know that, because it's drilled into our heads with every slight action, word and movement that Malcolm makes. In fact, it's so stereotypical that it's practically copied out of a medical textbook. #RedFlag2 My mum worked with people with dementia and Alzheimer's and I've been around them my entire life. This is the most basic, bland exploration of the disease that I've ever seen in a book.
Conveniently, one of Alex's ex-roommates from before he disappeared is now a policeman. David asks him for help and, despite his many protestations about potentially losing his job for it, John helps David get access to Alex's files. Then he discovers that - remarkably - another flatmate went missing not long after Alex. Simon was a drug user, who had been kicked out because of Alex, and soon went missing as well. That brings the missing people to two, and David's interest to still below zero.
Suddenly, in the course of his 'investigation', David finds he's not above blackmail, bribery, breaking into an apartment, searching a church, or shooting and kidnapping people. There is, in fact, nothing legal about anything that David has done in the midst of this investigation and I fail to see how any of it will be admissible in court. That's if David doesn't get himself killed before then, because he really does seem to just throw himself head-first into dangerous situations. And the way he talks to people makes me wonder how he's lived this long, because I probably would have killed him myself a long time ago, if I'd been even remotely associated with him and capable of murder. The fact that multiple bad guys have David in their hands and DON'T kill him is actually remarkable.
As a main character, I find David unlikeable, arrogant, egoist, and he's a bit of a pig. The way he interacts with Liz is pretty gross. When she basically offers herself on a platter for him - I can help you, David (gag!) - he looks at her...and all he sees is that she's got breasts, a waist and legs. Amazing that she doesn't have a face, a brain, any good qualities at all that aren't related to sex. Utterly incredible.
Saying that, I also find Liz really creepy. Her interest in David feels superficial and she's quite pushy in her own way. Even the way she phrases it - "You don't have to be alone" and "I can help you" is extremely gag-worthy.
I find him obnoxious and pushy. He has an attitude and a weird was of talking to people that he wants help from. I don't understand his style of humour at all, and I find his way of interacting with suspects/witnesses to be extremely off-putting.
There's a lot - and I mean far too much - of conversational back-and-forth, every time David meets someone new. It's vey limited in emotion, setting the scene or even just purpose. It's just constant lines of:
"What's your name?"
"What's it to you?"
"What's your name?"
"I don't even know you."
"What's your name?"
Like...David, respectfully, give it a f'kin rest! You don't know this person. You literally popped up out of a dark alleyway to interrogate Jade and you have the nerve to ask WHY she's running away from you? Really? Are you that obtuse and self-centered that you can't see how a man suddenly emerging from a dark alley on a late night, might be somewhat concerning to a young woman who is walking home from work alone? Really? And we're supposed to believe you were a journalist???
I mean, it wasn't even like it wasn't intentional. David's POV literally says "I'd be back at seven when she came off her shift - and this time she wouldn't see me coming."
I get that's supposed to be cliffhangery or whatever, but READ THE ROOM, David. That is so f'kin creepy it's unreal.
The plot is extremely slow to take off. There's too much extraneous information and not enough investigation to keep the story flowing. If David actually used more of his contacts or showed more of his investigation on page, that would be something. But when he visits the library - the place Mary last saw Alex - we simply get 1-2 lines that says he went there and found nothing. We don't actually get to see it. The rest of the story is split between David's wild goose chase about this weird satanic cult and snippets of someone being tortured.
Everybody that David meets is odd, rude, belligerent, and only out to hamper his investigation. He doesn't meet one normal person in the entire 17% that I read.
The story is split into parts, and I don't understand why. I get that each part ends with one of the victim's POV scenes, but 1) they're already their own chapter, to separate them from David's POV. 2) they're also in 3rd person, not 1st, which is differentiation enough. 3) in the entire 17% of what I read, we don't know WHO this is, WHERE they are, and NOTHING about their chapters adds anything to the storyline, because it doesn't tell us anything that we don't already know - except that they had their teeth removed, which was something that David's POV already tackled later in the book anyway.
Honestly, unless those POV's changed to show significant clues later, I can't see why they were included, except to introduce violence, torture and some kind of failed attempt at suspense.
Personally, nothing of the plot made sense. There's a suggestion that a victim's teeth were removed so they could be planted at a crime scene to provide a positive ID. Except...you know, they could have just used their 'extensive network' by replacing the dental records? I mean, that would be the first port of call. Why would you resort to removing every single tooth in the mouth, when just one or two would have sufficed?
Then later, a bad guy makes a point of constantly jugging David's attention down, to his feet, while he's tied to a chair. There are multiple instances of super close contact that comes off like something I'd read in an enemies-to-lovers MM Romance. And, for some reason, this bad guy is so fierce, so angry, but he DOESN'T kill David. Why? It's so stupid. There's also an instance where the bad guy shoves a gun into David's mouth, then punches him in the side of the face. 1) Why? 2) That's an illogical combination of awkward movements for the bad guy. 3) if you do this, you're going to lose a few teeth as they clatter off the gun in David's mouth, but David somehow manages to come out of this COMPLETELY UNSCATHED! It makes no sense.
Not to mention that he doesn't once realise that the guy is desperately trying to stop him from seeing the guy's face. And not once does David stop to think that maybe...just maybe...the reason is that he might actually recognise him.
When convenient, the author backtracks to give us information that was never even hinted at before - such as when David returns to his house to freshen up, grab some stuff and recover, only to then (pages later) inform us that he made a vitally important phone call that provides a heap of new information. The story is full of these plot conveniences and contrivances, whenever David needs something that he can't reasonably get himself, such as when Jade falls into his lap and is conveniently so sick of everything that she's ready to tell him everything - or rather, as much as she's willing to, despite the fact that she's literally going to kill herself later, so she COULD have told David EVERYTHING and even pointed him towards someone with more info. Except she didn't, because that would be too easy.
I actually marked down multiple places where I intended to DNF, but I really tried to slog through, because I had two books to read/review for Netgalley.
Overall, I just feel like the entire plot and premise of the book is so unrealistic and grandiose. It's like a B-rated horror movie, or some Batman comic book reject plot. I hate saying that, but it just felt so outlandish and illogical. This cult had a 'massive network' and could relocate people, give them entirely new identities, with apparently unlimited finances, and yet they worked on torture, mind control, and cultism. It screams more failed superhero novel than mystery/thriller. And the fact that David works without ANY actual credentials is extremely problematic, in terms of actually holding the criminals accountable and getting these 'dead' people their lives back. There can be NO real justice, accountability or judicial process when he doesn't even hold a P.I.'s license never mind have any right to be poking about where he is. He's using illegal methods to investigate an illegal crime and there can't be any kind of logical recourse for that, when it ends.
I almost DNF'd at multiple points, but I held on because a spoiler review promised an interesting ending. But, honestly, when I'm not even halfway through a book and it's dragging like a carcass stuck to the back of a lorry, then why would I continue? David is a sleazy, unrealistic PI, who makes a terrible main character. The bad guys are all purposefully shocking, but end up as silly caricatures of comic book villains trapped within an unrealistic plot.
I've just come off reading the entire David Hunter series and maybe that's why I'm reviewing this more harshly, because that series was fantastic and everything I expected THIS series to be. So, if you didn't enjoy David Raker - or if you did - then go check out The Chemistry Of Death
July 13, 2025
wow!
Very rarely do I read 3 books in a row by the same author, I usually like a bit of a breather, even when they’re all part of a single package. However, these stories really grabbed my attention, I couldn’t put them down. Excellent plots, fully developed interesting characters and intelligent story lines- if you fancy a page turning thriller or 3 you won’t go wrong with this collection.
David Raker is quite a complex protagonist and I expect you’ll get more out of these stories if they’re read in sequence.
Very rarely do I read 3 books in a row by the same author, I usually like a bit of a breather, even when they’re all part of a single package. However, these stories really grabbed my attention, I couldn’t put them down. Excellent plots, fully developed interesting characters and intelligent story lines- if you fancy a page turning thriller or 3 you won’t go wrong with this collection.
David Raker is quite a complex protagonist and I expect you’ll get more out of these stories if they’re read in sequence.
June 14, 2019
A bit over the top
This is nicely written but the twists and turns of the plot rely on way too much suspension of disbelief. Made the David Raker character unbelievable.
This is nicely written but the twists and turns of the plot rely on way too much suspension of disbelief. Made the David Raker character unbelievable.
July 18, 2019
All three books were an exceptional read, all different and brilliant.
March 18, 2020
I am hooked onto Tim Weaver now. Amazing write.
July 30, 2020
Missing people
Really good stories in these 3 books. A former journalist was searching for missing people. Well worth reading this author
Really good stories in these 3 books. A former journalist was searching for missing people. Well worth reading this author
August 2, 2021
Rivetting reading, fast paced, twist and turns especially towards the end of each story!
July 3, 2023
Great way to consume a new author and hero-binge reading 3 books in a row!
February 25, 2024
Brilliant as expected!! Couldn’t put it down!
The David Raker books are brilliant! I would highly recommend to any avid murder mystery reader. Always a good twist at the end!
The David Raker books are brilliant! I would highly recommend to any avid murder mystery reader. Always a good twist at the end!
February 1, 2025
A dark and gruesome series, but real page turners. The back story follows on, so read in order if you can.
July 21, 2015
I had missed out on these novels until I came across Tim Weaver with Never Coming Back. The book was astounding. These are the books that make the reading experience so exciting. These are the books that keep you up, the ones that draw you back, stop you doing what you should be doing. David Raker keeps the reader on the edge. Raker finds the people who cannot be found, His methods may be questionable but each story has a clever plot, that twists and turns. Fast paced and enthralling. Tim Weaver is a first class author and has surpassed Barclay and Coben in my reading lists.
September 17, 2016
New talent
I'm really getting into this author. My time is being consumed by his ability to keep me engaged with David Raker. Very entertaining if not extremely far fetched but I can't put it down.
I'm really getting into this author. My time is being consumed by his ability to keep me engaged with David Raker. Very entertaining if not extremely far fetched but I can't put it down.
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