The Last Goodbye: The heart-pounding new thriller from the bestselling author of The Blackbird

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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. Orthopaedic surgeon Rebekah Murphy flies in from New York to London to hire missing persons investigator David Raker to discover what happened to her mother Fiona, who left the family home in Cambridge on Boxing Day 1985, never to return. Over the years Rebekah has received condolence cards claiming to be from Fiona on the passing of her father and brothers. David Raker is basically a marvel at these cases and he soon makes links and the reader is taken on an intriguing journey. Both missing persons case relate and the reader gets to learn how and why.

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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' Now that I've seen this pattern in action, it was something I was looking out for in The Last Goodbye, and I was disappointed to see nothing has changed. There are three main female characters in this book -- and you could interchange all of their dialogue with no issue. Two of the female characters call David 'Raker' constantly. One of them is stated to have American dialect, but this is in no way apparent in the way she speaks. If you’ve read the earlier books you won’t want to miss this one and if you haven’t you’ve got a real treat in store catching up! So this is book 12 in the David Raker series, I have missed some prior to this, but it actually didn't seem to matter.

Frank used to be a cop,’ she confirmed. ‘This is, uh… This is a big step for me, flying all the way out here. I just needed some moral support.’ This is an excellent addition to the series and although it works as a standalone I would recommend you read the whole series for full entertainment This is another gripping tale full of suspense that I really enjoyed from start to finish. 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.

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And oh, that reveal at the climax! It is a masterstroke, carefully crafted and artfully interwoven throughout the narrative. One can sense Weaver's meticulous planning as the puzzle pieces fall into place, leaving readers both satisfied and in awe. The author's patience in developing this revelation over time rather than resorting to hasty resolutions is commendable and adds an extra layer of satisfaction to the reading experience. On the night Tom Brenner and his nine-year-old son Leo visit the Seven Peaks theme park, they head straight for the ghost house. They go in. But they don't come out. There are two cameras inside the ride: one is about a minute in; the second one is right at the end, prior to the exit. Tom and Leo are recorded passing the first camera. All her life she has wondered what happened and hopes missing person investigator, David, can bring her closure.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. I do generally enjoy this ‘Missing’ series by the talented Tim Weaver and feel unlike some series’ every one can be read without reading any previous,in this book the basics of the past are mentioned to help new readers understand what has happened beforehand but tbh it holds it’s own as a good stand alone story 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. A complex and gripping read that grabbed me from the start, involving two cases that each in their own way affects David Raker. Tim Weaver has a fantastic talent for writing the Raker novels, they are immersive, well researched and full of darkness, twists and surprises, and I really enjoyed reading The Last Goodbye.

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Tim Weaver is a master at his craft, and I only have read the one book thus far. The characters are immense and I was super invested in each and every one of them. 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 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!Grips like a vice and twists like a rollercoaster. I mpossibly clever. Impossible to put down' CHRIS WHITAKER Chasing the Dead – Tim Weaver – Penguin Books". Penguin.co.uk. 7 July 2011 . Retrieved 1 September 2013.