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Never Coming Back by Tim Weaver
Dec. 31st, 2013 06:25 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
A secret that will change lives for ever.
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 turns to investigator David Raker. He’s made a career out of finding missing people. He knows how they think. But it’s clear someone doesn’t want this family found.
As he gets closer to the truth, Raker begins to unravel a sinister cover-up, spanning decades and costing countless lives. And worse, in trying to find the missing family, he might just have made himself the next target …
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
This is the fourth in Tim Weaver’s DAVID RAKER SERIES, which I hadn’t realised when I picked up a copy at the airport for a trip. However, there’s enough information in the opening chapters to work out what’s happened before and the novel is self-standing so you don’t have to worry about complicated backstories. I found it an easy read that kept me turning the pages, although I did see some of the twists coming and some of the things that the villain does really strained credibility for me at times. Raker’s a driven investigator with a complicated life but I was disappointed that his friendship with the broken Healy fizzles away without any real resolution after the first third. However, it was a decent enough read for me to be interested in checking out the earlier books and Weaver’s other books.
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 turns to investigator David Raker. He’s made a career out of finding missing people. He knows how they think. But it’s clear someone doesn’t want this family found.
As he gets closer to the truth, Raker begins to unravel a sinister cover-up, spanning decades and costing countless lives. And worse, in trying to find the missing family, he might just have made himself the next target …
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
This is the fourth in Tim Weaver’s DAVID RAKER SERIES, which I hadn’t realised when I picked up a copy at the airport for a trip. However, there’s enough information in the opening chapters to work out what’s happened before and the novel is self-standing so you don’t have to worry about complicated backstories. I found it an easy read that kept me turning the pages, although I did see some of the twists coming and some of the things that the villain does really strained credibility for me at times. Raker’s a driven investigator with a complicated life but I was disappointed that his friendship with the broken Healy fizzles away without any real resolution after the first third. However, it was a decent enough read for me to be interested in checking out the earlier books and Weaver’s other books.
