by Tim Weaver
A place known as the Dead Tracks …
Vanished
No life is perfect. Everyone has secrets.
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.
For, as Raker starts to suspect that even the police are lying to him, someone is watching. Someone who knows what happened on the tube that day. And, with Raker in his sights, he’ll do anything to keep Sam’s secrets to himself …
Never Coming Back
A secret that will change lives forever …
It was supposed to be the start of a big night out. But when Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie’s house, she finds the front door unlocked and no one inside. Dinner’s cooking, the TV’s on. Carrie, her husband and their two daughters are gone.
When the police draw a blank, Emily asks missing persons investigator David Raker to find them. It’s clear someone doesn’t want the family found.
But as he gets closer to the truth, Raker begins to uncover evidence of a sinister cover-up, spanning decades and costing countless lives. And worse, in trying to find Emily’s missing family, he might just have made himself the next target …
Fall From Grace
NO GOODBYE
When Leonard and Ellie Franks leave London for retirement in secluded Dartmoor everything seems perfect. Until their new life is shattered. One evening Leonard heads outside to fetch firewood – and never returns.
NO TRACE
Nine months later, with the investigation at a dead end, Leonard’s family turn to David Raker – a missing persons investigator. Nothing could prepare Raker for what he uncovers.
NOWHERE TO HIDE
At the heart of this disappearance lies a devastating secret. And when Raker realises how deep the lies go, it’s not just him in danger – it’s everyone he cares about.
What Remains
Colm Healy used to be one of the Met’s best detectives. Until, haunted by the unsolved murders of a mother and her twin daughters, his failure to find an elusive killer left his life in ruins.
Missing persons investigator David Raker is the only friend Healy has left. As they reopen the investigation together, Raker learns the hard way how this case breeds obsession – and how an unsolvable puzzle can break even the best detective.
Their search takes them down a trail of darkness, unravelling a thread of tragedy, and forces them to sacrifice everything they have left.
Broken Heart
A woman drives to a beautiful headland overlooking the Devon coast. She is never seen again, and no trace of where she went can be found.
The woman’s sister calls missing persons investigator David Raker. As Raker tries to find her whereabouts – fearing the worst – he learns that she was recently widowed from a reclusive film director.
It seems that, going through her husband’s belongings, she found a secret so dark and shocking that it forced her to leave her entire life behind. Chasing the truth will consume Raker and place him in grave danger …
THE BEGINNING
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Published in Penguin Books 2017
Copyright © Tim Weaver, 2017
The moral right of the author has been asserted Cover images © knape/Getty Images, © Nikki Smith/Archangel Images and © Shutterstock ISBN: 978-1-405-91785-8
