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Now, her husband has lost his job, the children are bullied at school, and someone is prowling around the garden at night. Instead he’s been pulled into a 20-year-old cold case. Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the definitive collection of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and four collections of short stories.
Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Unlike most of Tim Weaver’s stories, Never Coming Back is set in Devon, Las Vegas.
Hands Down One of the Most Entertaining Thrillers Ever
Metres away, the drowned body of another girl is found on an isolated beach. And all this on a small stretch of land where, nearly 10 years ago, the shocking disappearance of a young girl remains an open case. Yes - a disappointment on this occasion but not one which will stop me from reading future Tim Weaver stories. But by the next morning, they had disappeared without a trace. Colm Healy made a name for himself as one of the Met's best detectives—until a cold case involving the killing of a mother and her twin daughters destroyed his career, his family and his life.
This seemed a bit pointless and plain confusing as we'd already been beyond this point with the main character. No One Home is the tenth book in the David Raker series, and I’ll be the first to hold my hand up and say I’ve only read book one. BUT that in no way stopped me from following the story or picking up on Raker’s backstory, it actually made me eager to read the previous books in the series because I enjoyed this one so much. Whilst I did enjoy No One Home, I didn’t love it. The synopsis totally drew me in and I was expecting a thriller of a book but sadly I found it to be a bit lacklustre. I felt the middle section seemed to lose pace and that the book could have been wrapped up a lot quicker than it was.
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The flick back and forth between two dogged investigators in different timelines built tension well, both stories interesting enough to balance the other and keep the pages turning FAST. No One Home for a start has an excellent central premise, one that immediately intrigues just from the blurb. An entire village vanishes into the night…on Halloween no less…years later and our hero is hired to try and discover what happened.
At the same time, I thought how on earth is he going to make sense of this weird disappearance? I mean, it's very difficult to find a logical reason, why anyone would abduct all 9 people, plus it's not an easy job to do. After 2.5 years later, remaining an unresolved mystery, the relatives of the residents decide to hire David Raker, a detective famous for finding missing people.
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There is absolutely no way I could have predicted the ending; every twist takes you shooting off down an unknown path and I swear a little “ooh” gasp came out my mouth each time. I really liked Jo Kader, who we meet in a seperate narrative which is set in the 80’s, as a cop investigating a different case in a very male-dominated police force. She seems strong, intelligent and opinionated and comes across really well. It’s Halloween, and the nine residents of a remote village called Black Gale are having dinner together. Nothing has been disturbed apart from their wallets and mobiles gone and one of the couple’s camper van is missing.
This is one assignment that David Raker, a missing persons investigator, doesn’t want to undertake for the simple reason that it’s a pointless mistaken identity case. No One Home by Tim Weaver is the latest missing persons thriller starring David Raker. In this gripping page turner, Raker investigates the disappearance of an entire village after a Halloween game of hide and seek. As investigations get underway, the plot of the story thickens, curls and intrigues. Just like in Chasing The Dead, Megan’s secrets are not to be disclosed, and they can actually cost Raker’s life. Raker finds out that there is no substance in the allegations made about Megan’s disappearance- everything was cooked.
As a disclaimer I will say I felt this could have been a shorter book and that the story did get rather convoluted. At some point, the 2 stories do eventually converge, but I respectfully suggest that Mr. Weaver could have axed the whole American narrative and his story would not have suffered an iota. ‘I just don’t understand what happened to them,’ Ross said. I’d met Ross Perry just outside Grassington, a market town twenty miles south of Black Gale, and had followed him up here. The further I drove, the higher I climbed, daffodils dotted along the banks of the narrow, one-lane roads.
I devoured this, as I have every other novel in this brilliant series, every time I review I say “this is the best one yet”. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. They often become overly complex when the premise of the story is superb. Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. Great wages, accommodation provided and all located within the walls of Highwood Hall, a stunning stately home owned by the Howard family. Not many little girls dream of becoming a maid, but this is an opportunity for me to get back on my feet.
She is a strong, determined character, who finds out that you really can't have it all, it's job or career. I am so delighted to have discovered this superb series and author. Tim Weaver weaves an atmospheric mystery that is absolutely gripping reading, with masses of suspense, and such terrific characterisation. Raker makes an appealing central protagonist, a good man who has helped a friend, Colm Healy, despite the fact it puts him in danger of prison.
For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal...because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam.
The premise of this book was so intriguing, I was really excited to start reading it, but I lost interest very quickly. I actually almost DNF’d this book a couple of times, but I don’t like not finishing books so I stuck with it in the hopes that it would grow on me. I can’t pinpoint the exact reasons why I didn’t enjoy this story.
This is one of the few series which can be read in any order without losing track of the developing story. There is an aspect of looking for somebody who has vanished in each story. In Chasing The Dead for example, the search for Alex is on.
