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As a fervent enthusiast of Tim Weaver's captivating David Raker series, I embarked on the twelfth instalment, "The Last Goodbye," with high expectations. Let me assure you, dear readers, that those expectations were not only met but exceeded. With its intricate web of events and constant sense of urgency, this novel effortlessly ensnares your attention from start to finish.
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. Tim Weaver is a master of the crime genre. You'll be gripped by the intricate plotting and whiplash-inducing twists. I couldn't look away' GILLY MACMILLAN Raker is hired by Rebekah Murphy to find out what happened to her mother, Fiona, who vanished on Boxing Day 1985 as she has recently received a card claiming to be from Fiona. Meanwhile Tom Brenner and his son Leo go into a fairground haunted house and don’t come out. What links the two disappearances? I like Raker and his approach to investigating makes for a decent read, I’m just not sure there was a strong enough appeal for me to want to read the previous books. There just wasn’t enough there to keep me racing through, perhaps too many plotlines competing for attention? There are no end of awful female characters in Horowitz's books. They're snappy, and jealous, and spiteful, and cruel, and power-hungry, and arrogant. They also have glimpses of worry, love, courage, and can, if pushed, do the right thing in the end. These women aren't always the villains. Sometimes they're bitches just because bitchy women...exist.
Tim Weaver’s David Raker books in order:
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? The tension builds throughout and as soon as I had finished it I was instantly looking forward to the next instalment. I just want answers,’ she said, even as the doubt lingered in her voice. She glanced at Travis and, again, I glimpsed the connection they had: familial, gentle, protective. ‘I just need to know why my mother disappeared. I need to know why I didn’t hear a thing from her for almost forty years.’
I would like to thank Netgalley and Michael Joseph, Penguin Random House for an advance copy of The Last Goodbye, the twelfth novel to feature missing persons specialist David Raker, set in London.Present day, Father Tom Brenner takes his son the local theme park to visit ‘The ghost house’ while they are waiting in the queue, they are called over to escape the queues and be let in. They enter the ghost house, but CCTV cameras show That Tom Brenner and his son Leo never come out. Where did they go? Are the two disappearance stories connected in some way?
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