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The Lost Women

The Last Goodbye

(David Raker Missing Persons 11)

The Blackbird

Four cases. One connection. The gripping David Raker short story collection

The Shadow at the Door

Missing Pieces

No One Home

The gripping Sunday Times bestseller from the author of No One Home

You Were Gone

The unputdownable thriller from author of Richard & Judy thriller No One Home

What Remains

How can someone just disappear? . . . Find out in this TWISTY THRILLER

Broken Heart

The gripping Richard & Judy thriller from the bestselling author of No One Home

Never Coming Back

Her husband is missing . . . in this BREATHTAKING THRILLER

Fall From Grace

The David Raker Collection Books 4-8

Megan is missing . . . in this HEART-STOPPING THRILLER

The Dead Tracks

The edge-of-your-seat thriller from author of Richard & Judy thriller No One Home

Vanished

The gripping thriller from the bestselling author of No One Home

Chasing the Dead

The heart-stopping thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of No One Home

I Am Missing

Missing

Three Short Stories

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The David Raker Collection Books 1-3

The Missing Family

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Fiendishly serpentine and utterly compulsive &ndash; I am a huge fan of the Raker mysteries

Raker and a race against time - is there a better basis for a book? This time, Raker is investigating a truly baffling missing person case, which seems to defy all logic. The book is impossible to put down, as Raker battles to answer disturbing questions

Dense, twisty adventure . . . a masterclass of plotting

A family completely disappears from their dinghy in the middle of a lake. 
A man detained in a casino holding cell vanishes. 
Missing persons investigator David Raker is an expert at solving missing persons puzzles - but these mysteries are unlike anything he&rsquo;s ever seen. 
He employs his long-time ally, ex-detective Colm Healy to help him. 
But the men are in danger. Because buried in the shadows of both cases is a deadly secret that was never meant to come out&hellip;

IT WAS THE PERFECT DAY OUT . . . 
UNTIL THEY NEVER CAME BACK. 
THE EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT DAVID RAKER THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING MASTER OF THE MISSING PERSON MYSTERY, TIM WEAVER 
'Fiendishly serpentine and utterly compulsive' Louise Candlish 
A beautiful summer day. A remote Dartmoor lake. 
The Fowler family takes a boat out. 
Mother Sarah stays on shore. 
 
She looks away for one minute. 
When she turns back the boat is empty . . . 
Her family has vanished. 
 
The police draw a blank. 
Yet missing persons investigator 
David Raker knows something isn’t right. 
He promises answers. 
But his questions might put him in the path of a killer . . . 
 
‘A twisty adventure, a masterclass of plotting’ 
Literary Review 
‘Raker and a race against time - is there a better basis for a book? Impossible to put down’ HOLLY WATT 
‘Oh-so tantalising twisty’ Heat

Tim Weaver is the Sunday Times bestselling author of fifteen novels, including No One Home, The Blackbird and The Last Goodbye, and a short story collection. He is also the host and producer of the chart-topping Missing podcast and is currently developing an original TV series with the team behind Line of Duty. A former journalist and magazine editor, he lives near Bath with his wife and daughter.

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Fiendishly serpentine and utterly compulsive – I am a huge fan of the Raker mysteries

Raker and a race against time - is there a better basis for a book? This time, Raker is investigating a truly baffling missing person case, which seems to defy all logic. The book is impossible to put down, as Raker battles to answer disturbing questions

Dense, twisty adventure . . . a masterclass of plotting

Oh-so tantalising twisty

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