If you’re coming to the series cold, however, it really isn’t the place to start your acquaintance with Raker. Architect of Courage by novelist and Crime Fiction Lover reviewer Victoria Weisfeld comes out on 4 June. To no avail, because Tim Weaver’s rich prose, clever plotting and overwhelming sense of place hook into your synapses like a drug – meaning you just have to keep turning the pages.

Just like in other stories in this series, as the investigations continue, Raker finds out many shocking truths of sinister events. 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. I found myself eking out my reading time, desperately trying to make the experience last that teeny bit longer. However, Tim Weaver’s Never Coming Back seems to be loved by many people, if its selection for the Richard and Judy Book club is anything to go by. We think All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby is going to storm up the bestseller lists in both the UK and the US, and everywhere else too.Unsettling, brilliantly plotted, and satisfyingly complex, these books are unputdownable, and the latest –The Blackbird– is no exception…"–– Mick Herron, no. Fans of this series know Raker to be a dogged and intuitive investigator, who will single-mindedly burrow away at the case in hand until he begins to find answers, but this time he hits dead end after dead end. CCTV footage captures Cate and Aiden Gascoigne driving home seconds before their car plunges into a ravine and explodes.

As if that is not enough, iTunes also mentioned the book in a special way, including it in the Best of 2013 list. And if the impact doesn’t, the fire will: seconds after it comes to rest, the Land Rover bursts into flames.

Anyone who has read The Blackbird, the previous book in Tim Weaver’s series, will know that its finale left David Raker in a precarious place. The 10th anniversary of 9/11 is still months away, but as this story opens the date is already playing on the minds of New Yorkers. To read more about the site or if you want a graphic to link to us, see the about page for more details. Alex had gone missing six years before this story is told, and five years later his corpse is found in a car wreck. This is the 30th book, but considering Alex has survived "Kill Alex Cross" before, chances are he survives this one.

Tim Weaver was interested in telling a story of a person going missing at a time when there are CCTV cameras almost everywhere that are on around the clock.

It’s a unique twist on the locked room mystery involving a car crash, a burning vehicle and the inexplicable disappearance of the two people who were inside. Incredibly well-paced, with menacing, clever twists - Raker is back in this stunning read from one of the masters of the genre. In Vanished, a man disappears while on a London underground train while in the Fall from Grace, a missing former metropolitan police officer is being looked for.

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 . Author Daniel Sweren-Becker must have been well tuned in to the zeitgeist when he conceived Kill Show, his newly published ‘true crime’ novel, as it delves into growing critiques of the genre. Meanwhile, over in the wilds of Wales, Raker’s fugitive friend Colm Healy has problems of his own – someone is taking an interest in him, and that’s a big no-no for n ex-cop who must live his life under the radar. We celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, traditions and living cultures; and we pay our respects to Elders past and present.In this story, Emily Kane arrives at Carrie’s house only to find that Carrier and his two daughters have disappeared, although the front door is unlocked and dinner is on the table.