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

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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 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' TWO DISAPPEARANCES: At the country's newest theme park, Tom Preacher and his sone 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. As with all the authors books there is a good beginning,how the ‘missing’ part has happened,a tense and exciting middle where it is investigated and a robust ending where things all start to make sense 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.

Specsavers National Book Award – Crime & Thriller of the Year". nationalbookawards.co.uk/. 18 November 2013 . Retrieved 18 November 2013. As always the David Raker novels are well thought out and excellently written. Excellent and realistic characters and lots of information to keep your mind thinking. Each character is well developed, each with their own secrets and motivations. The deeper David Raker investigates the more the intrigue, uncovering more secrets as the truth unravels. The story is expertly paced to keep the reader hanging on every word and detail. 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.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.’ Would have been 5 stars, but the outrageous coincidences which led to the denouement was a little too much, I thought. 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. David has a lot on his plate and has to use all his ingenuity to stay one step ahead of a particularly nasty enemy as well as the police. Raker is asked to help Rebekah who is trying to find out what happened to her Mum who has been missing since 1985.

Master of the crime thriller Tim Weaver has returned with his latest – and possibly best – in the David Raker series. ComputerAndVideoGames.com – About Tim Weaver". ComputerAndVideoGames.com . Retrieved 18 November 2013. Weaver's characters are almost always well crafted and convincing. The ones in this book are no exception to that. There are new people and some old friends. He is a master of pace and controlled tension. OK it's playing games but Weaver does it so well. A chapter ends on a key thought/aspect... And then so does the next one! There is light and dark here and bubbling around that ideas are building. Some bits I maybe worked out. The major twist I certainly did not!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. Another enjoyable read in the Raker series. There are plenty of twists and turns to keep us guessing. Tim Weaver book published Chasing the Dead". This is Somerset. 17 February 2010 . Retrieved 1 September 2013. Expertly plotted and executed this book, as with the rest in the series, grabs you from the start and doesn’t let you go. 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?

Missing persons investigator David Raker is hired by Rebekah to find out if the letter is actually from Fiona – and, if it isn’t, why someone would pretend to be her.It’s not clear how they are linked at first but through some clever storytelling, we find out the full extent of both disappearances. And with his closest ally under arrest and about to reveal some truths of his own, the danger to Raker is coming from all sides...

The investigation at the core of "The Last Goodbye" is a labyrinthine enigma, requiring readers to remain alert and astute at every turn. Weaver deftly introduces an array of characters, their identities often shrouded in secrecy and their names morphing in a dizzying dance of deception. Keeping up with these intricacies may prove challenging, but it is a testament to Weaver's skill that he maintains a sense of clarity amidst the complexity. Still, I held out hope that maybe Fiona could prove me wrong. I would have loved it if she had genuinely walked out on her kids, because that's an interesting mother to write about. I would have loved it if she genuinely resented her children, because that's an interesting woman to write about. When the book ended with a letter from Fiona expressing motherly love (despite her daughter spending decades believing she didn't love her family), I was so bored I skipped it. It seemed as though Fiona was being placed into the stereotype of how mothers are supposed to act, rather than being allowed to flourish into a flawed, but fascinating, three-dimensional figure.And with his closest ally under arrest and about to reveal some truths of his own, the danger to Raker is coming from all sides . . . 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. Missing persons private investigator David Raker and his friend Colm Healey have fast become two of my favourite fictional characters. Weaver has brilliantly fleshed out all the members of the cast, and the dialogue between them always feels natural and believable. I particularly love the friendship and dynamic between Raker and Healey which have shone through in both books that I’ve read so far.