Chasing the Dead, Tim Weaver
Chasing the Dead, Tim Weaver
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Chasing the Dead

Author: Tim Weaver

Narrator: Michael Healy

Unabridged: 9 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/20/2016


Synopsis

One year ago, Alex Towne's body was found. One month ago, his mother saw him on the street. One week ago, David Raker agreed to look for him. He'll wish he hadn't.

Mary Towne's son, Alex, had been missing for six years before he finally turned up—as a corpse in a car wreck. But now she's convinced he's still alive. Missing persons investigator David Raker doesn't want the work: it's clearly a sad but hopeless case of mistaken identity brought to him by a woman unable to let go of her son. But haunted by a loss of his own, he reluctantly agrees.

As Raker digs deeper, he discovers that Alex's life was not the innocent one his mother believed. Buried in his past are secrets that were never meant to be found—and a sinister organization willing to protect them, whatever the cost.

About Tim Weaver

Tim Weaver is the internationally bestselling author of Chasing the Dead, The Dead Tracks, Vanished, the Richard and Judy Book Club selection Never Coming Back, and Fall From Grace. All his thrillers feature missing persons investigator David Raker. Tim has been nominated for a National Book Award and shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library Award, which considers an author's entire body of work. A former journalist and magazine editor, he lives near Bath with his wife and daughter.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Miriam on August 31, 2018

I'm going to keep this review short and sweet because I feel the next few sentences say it all about "Chasing The Dead" which I thoroughly enjoyed. This book was utterly brilliant. Exactly my type of story. Menacingly creepy, intense, scary, definitely an edge of the seat thriller. Easy to read, quick......more

Goodreads review by Gary on December 09, 2018

This is the first book in the David Raker series by author Tim Weaver. Lead character is based in London and investigate missing people. A year after the death of her son Alex, Mary Towne is convinced she's seen him alive - and wants missing persons investigator David Raker to find him. Reluctant at......more

Goodreads review by Rich on November 25, 2016

David Raker finds missing people. His latest assignment is to find Alex, a young man who was killed in a car accident, but whose mother swears she's seen him alive. It begins well and Weaver builds a creepy atmosphere but somewhere round about the middle of the book it all becomes an endless cycle of......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on November 11, 2013

Came to this first book of the David Raker series immediately after reading the fourth, 'Never Coming Back', which I thought was fabulous and gripping. Maybe I shouldn't have stuck with the same genre so soon after, but I didn't enjoy 'Chasing the Dead' half as much. My reading 'dips' in and out acr......more

Goodreads review by Liz on April 07, 2013

I picked this up after a recommendation from a friend, expecting to find another good,if not shiny new, addition to the crime fiction genre. I was wrong. The premise for the story is fairly straight forward - David Raker, ex journalist, has kind of fallen into the career of finding missing children.......more