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The Missing Family

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

The Last Goodbye

The heart-pounding Sunday Times bestseller 2023 (David Raker Missing Persons 11)

The Blackbird

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

The Shadow at the Door

The gripping and unputdownable Sunday Times bestseller 2021

Missing Pieces

The must-read Richard & Judy thriller pick and Sunday Times bestseller

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

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 Dead Tracks

Weaver has delivered another cracking crime thriller

Sunday Times bestselling author of The Widow

Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of the DC Max Wolfe series

The writing is beautiful and the plot so cleverly constructed I never guessed any of the twists

Sunday Times bestselling author of Local Girl Missing

Tim Weaver writes books so meticulously researched that the reader is educated as well as entertained, enthralled and intrigued

Sunday Times bestselling author of Lying in Wait

Fans of Mo Hayder will be in seventh hell

Weaver has become one of this country's most respected, bestselling crime writers, and he fully deserves to be . . . Catch him at once

Weaver's books get better each time - tense, complex, written with flair as well as care

The story-telling is little short of brilliant

Perfect plotting, great characterisation, and the kind of payoff that a thriller of this calibre deserves

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

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RICHARD &amp; JUDY THRILLER PICK NO ONE HOME 
 
Megan Carver, a straight-A student from a happy home, seems like an unlikely runaway: 
 
Six months on, Megan's never been found. 
 
Some close to her are dead. Others too terrified to talk. 
 
The search will lead to a place with a horrifying history - The Dead Tracks. 
 
But what does it have to do with Megan? 
 
And who can really be trusted in this investigation? 
 
 
'Weaver has delivered yet another cracking crime thriller' Daily Mail

Tim Weaver is the Sunday Times bestselling author of thirteen 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.

A serial killer more terrifying than you could ever imagine . . . 
 
Seventeen-year-old Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. A straight-A student from a happy home, she studied hard and rarely got into trouble. Six months on, she's never been found. 
 
Missing persons investigator David Raker knows what it's like to grieve. He knows the shadowy world of the lost too. So, when he's hired by Megan's parents to find out what happened, he recognizes their pain - but knows that the darkest secrets can be buried deep. 
 
And Megan's secrets could cost him his life. 
 
Because as Raker investigates her disappearance, he realizes everything is a lie. People close to her are dead. Others are too terrified to talk. And soon the conspiracy of silence leads Raker towards a forest on the edge of the city. A place with a horrifying history - which was once the hunting ground for a brutal, twisted serial killer. 
 
A place known as the Dead Tracks. . .

The Dead Tracks

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