In summary, the sinuous plot takes us through toe-curling and fist clenching violence scenes and we feel David Raker go through the normal vicissitudes of life as he grows. The mystery and suspense in the entire novel is awesome. For as he 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 dark, dangerous men willing to kill to protect them. BELL, τη νέα πολύ επιτυχημένη σειρά, του Tim Weaver, με θέμα υποθέσεις εξαφανισμένων προσώπων. Το «Κυνηγώντας τους Νεκρούς» είναι το πρώτο βιβλίο της σειράς «Υποθέσεις Εξαφανισμένων Προσώπων», η οποία καθώς φαίνεται θα κάνει θραύση και στη χώρα μας! Πρόκειται για μια λαμπρή δουλειά από πλευράς του συγγραφέα Tim Weaver και μια εξαιρετική μετάφραση από τον αγαπημένο μας Βαγγέλη Γιαννίση! Ότι και να πω είναι λίγο, γι’ αυτό θα προσπαθήσω να είμαι σύντομη και περιεκτική. Θα προσπαθήσω είπα. Μην το δέσετε και κόμπο! ;-) David Raker isn't entirely convinced, but Mary has enough evidence to intrigue him. And then he meets a woman who is legally dead. Ayo: What makes a character real for you? Must you work everything out about them before hand or do you just let it flow?

Weaver has become one of this country's most respected, bestselling crime writers, and he fully deserves to be . . . Catch him at once * Daily Mail * Tim Weaver (born 1977) is an English writer primarily known for his crime thrillers featuring missing persons investigator David Raker.ABOUT THIS BOOK: It starts out as a sad but hopeless case of mistaken identity. 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 first, but haunted by a loss of his own, Raker eventually agrees. This, on the one hand, kept me at the edge of my seat. On the other...REALLY DAVID?!? REALLY?! ARE YOU THAY STUPID OMG ran through my mind a lot. It was annoying. But so did OMG NO WHY?! and OH. OH SHIT. WASN'T EXPECTING THAT. But overall, there were twist and turns I expected but HOLY ENDING I did not. The reason I'm wavering between three and four stars is because whilst I really enjoyed it on the most part, it kept me up till 3am reading, the ending was a little ridiculous. I did really enjoy how the loose ends were tied up, as for one moment I was convinced it wasn't going to. The complex character throughout the series, David Raker, is charged with the responsibility of investigating the case. Just like Tim, David Raker is a former journalist. We learn that he left his job to nurse his ailing wife, who finally dies. David is reluctant to take the task of investigating Alex Towne’s disappearance, but remembering the loss of his own, he finally agrees, and this signifies the beginning of trouble for him. MISSING by Tim Weaver on iTunes". itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/missing/id1034408710?mt=2 . Retrieved 2 September 2015.

The rising star of British crime * Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of the DC Max Wolfe series * Chasing the Dead” is the first book in the “David Raker” series written by Tim Weaver. Mary Towne hires missing persons locator David Raker to look for her son (named Alex) whose body was found a year ago. He did not want to agree to help, but due to his own loss that he suffered (his wife died of cancer) he agrees to find him. She claims to have seen him just one month before she went to Raker for help. Raker thinks it is just another case of a woman who cannot let go and get on with her life and reconcile the fact that he is gone after her son died. The more Raker looks, the more her son, Alex, looks less and less innocent. The way she thought he was the whole time she knew him. There are big and nasty secrets in his life that other men will kill to keep hidden. Weaver ανοίγει συγχρόνως πολλαπλά «μέτωπα» αλλά ως δια μαγείας κατορθώνει και τα διαχειρίζεται όλα άριστα. Πραγματικά είναι αξιοθαύμαστο το πώς μπορεί και δουλεύει τόσες διαφορετικές πλοκές μεταξύ τους, χωρίς να δημιουργεί κομφούζιο στο μυαλό του αναγνώστη. Η ατμόσφαιρα είναι εξόχως σκοτεινή και στη διαδρομή συναντάμε σκηνές που μπορεί να σοκάρουν και τον πιο «σκληραγωγημένο» αναγνώστη. Απόλαυσα ιδιαίτερα την συγκροτημένη σκέψη του Ρέικερ και τις διαδικασίες που ακολουθεί, οι οποίες είχαν ύφος κι άρωμα true crime. Από πλευράς ανατροπών δε θα πω ότι έγινε ο κακός χαμός αλλά η μία που μας πρόσφερε ήταν πολύ δυνατή και φυσικά εντελώς απρόσμενη. Εγώ τουλάχιστον, δεν την είδα να έρχεται ποτέ!Tim: He does have a sad personal life, but again I wanted to try to aim for something a little different. There’s a great tradition in the genre of detectives avenging the murder of a loved one – I’m thinking of brilliant books like Every Dead Thing here – so I didn’t want to compete directly with that. Raker’s wife dies after a long and ultimately unsuccessful battle with breast cancer, and I think, in many ways, he does what he does – and goes as far as he does – to fill the gap she’s left behind. But, perhaps more importantly than even that, her death runs parallel to his work as an investigator: she’s not missing like the people he’s trying to find, but she’s missing from his life and, for him, that’s enough.

Tim: I’ve just always grown up reading series characters, so the idea felt very natural to me. Authors like Michael Connelly were the reason I wanted to become a thriller writer in the first place, and I loved how Bosch changed from novel to novel. Each time he was slightly different. I also like the scope a series character gives you: you can build a world, and you can progress it, rather than having to build it all over again, every time. That’s not to say I wouldn’t like to have a bash at writing a standalone because I very definitely would, but I like the dynamics of a series. To me it’s like different seasons of a TV show: the events of one season impacts on those that follow, changing the character you get to know so well, in subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) ways.Skillfully Tim Weaver has developed complex and compelling characters in this novel like observant, resourceful and tenacious David Raker who never gives up his search for Megan; police officer Colm Healey plagued by the loss of his daughter is vengeful, unpredictable, arrogant and resentful; and secretive Megan Carver, the unlikely runaway who’s a smart student and obedient daughter. Tim Weaver is the author of currently two books featuring David Raker an investigator who finds missing people. He has a fondness for 80s action movies which he has transferred to his character. Tim: I have a character arc planned out for Raker, which will see him through the first four books. Beyond that, I think it’s definitely a case of letting it flow! Ayo: Your books make for exciting read and it is clear that an enormous amount of research has gone into them...

The first three thrillers in the stunning David Raker series - for the first time in one unique bundle Ayo: In Chasing The Dead there is a great sense of place, in this case South Africa. How important was this and what is your relationship with South Africa?It was my first book by the author and, considering the fact that it was also his debut novel, he got already my full attention- even if I didn't rate it with a full five stars - and I am sure that he will be getting better in the following installments about David Raker, a missing persons investigator. Timweaverbooks.Com". Timweaverbooks.tumblr.com . Retrieved 1 September 2013. We had a very long and traumatic battle to have our daughter (and) a lot of Chasing the Dead – a lot of the beginning of that first book where (David Raker) is talking about how he feels about his wife – came out of that sense of loss. This is the first book in the series introducing ex-journalist David Raker, who finds missing people. Having recently lost his wife to cancer, Raker has pursued the project his wife started him on and finds that he is good at it. But when Mary Towne employs him to find her son Alex, he doesn't realise what torments he is letting himself in for. Alex was supposed to have died in a car accident a year before but his body could only be identified through dental records - but a month ago Mary saw Alex walking through London, hence her plea to Raker to investigate. But Raker's investigations open him up to considerable danger as he gets involved with the workings of an organisation that will do anything to remain hidden....