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

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Missing persons investigator David Raker is hired by Rebekah to find out if the letter is actually from her mother - and soon makes a connection to the Brenners. From the latest Scandinavian serial killer to Golden Age detective stories, we love our crime novels! Healy is in prison and Raker is desparate to speak to him as the Police are pushing him for information following Healy faking his own death, and Raker helping him with other stuff. But will he reach him in time? I’m a big David Raker fan and have read all of this authors previous books about as well as a stand alone which introduced Rebekah as a character. In this novel Rebekah and David come together as she hires him to look into her mother’s disappearance. Fiona Murphy walked out on Rebekah, her father and her brothers nearly 40 years earlier when Rebekah was 3.

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Another half-minute and the people who’d been standing behind the mother and the twins come out of the ride. Then the ones behind them, then the ones behind them. It’s like a conveyor belt of people, one after the next, heading in and then coming out.When Rebekah Murphy was three, her mother walked out and never returned. Nearly four decades on, Fiona Murphy is still missing. Until a letter arrives in the post, claiming to be from Fiona. This is Raker 12. I’ve read them all and never got anywhere near the twists so this time I thought just relax and go with the flow and maybe that's the secret because this time I managed to figure out one small twist. Very proud of myself! I would like to thank Netgalley and Michael Joseph, Penguin Random House for an advance copy of The Last Goodbye, the twelfth novel to feature missing persons specialist David Raker, set in London.

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While Raker travels far and wide in pursuit of Fiona, pulling in favours from some frankly reluctant sources and effectively putting himself in danger, Healy is trapped behind bars with plenty of time to ponder upon his current situation and how everything came to this pretty pass. As the walls start to close in, so does an overweening sense of danger – and when someone offers him a juicy get-out-of-jail card, he is sorely tempted to snatch it with both hands. But what if his freedom comes at too high a price? David Raker is basically a marvel at these cases and he soon makes links and the reader is taken on an intriguing journey. Both missing persons case relate and the reader gets to learn how and why. As always the David Raker novels are well thought out and excellently written. Excellent and realistic characters and lots of information to keep your mind thinking. Each character is well developed, each with their own secrets and motivations. The deeper David Raker investigates the more the intrigue, uncovering more secrets as the truth unravels. The story is expertly paced to keep the reader hanging on every word and detail.In The Last Goodbye, David is hired by Rebekah who's mother upped and left when she was a small child, the other missing case which seems unrelated is a father and son who went into a ghost house and never showed up. Tim Weaver skilfully connects the various plotlines as the story cleverly comes together. Raker is a likeable hero and this was a complex and compelling read. I was also invested in what happened next to Raker's friend Healy, now in prison for faking his own death and using an assumed identity. My only criticism of The Last Goodbye is that it is an overly long novel that I feel could have been slightly edited. However, it's still an enjoyable read and another great addition to the series. Recommended. When the video starts, there’s no queue outside the ghost house. It’s early evening; only just opening time. ONE DAY AGO.On the night Tom Brenner and his nine-year-old son Leo visit the Seven Peaks theme park, they head straight for the ghost house. They go in. But they don't come out. I'd definitely recommend for those who love to solve a missing persons' case - this is the first Tim Weaver book I've read and it most definitely won't be the last.

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Weaver lives up to his name well in The Last Goodbye, masterfully handling then bringing together a variety of fascinating threads that span time and geography. He lures the reader into an intriguing tale then ratchets up the tension as his long-time hero and others are thrust into dire jeopardy. Another very good instalment in a very good series, well worth a look for crime fiction fans. It’s not clear how they are linked at first but through some clever storytelling, we find out the full extent of both disappearances.I love this series that features David Raker. You always know that this author will bring something special to each of his books in this series. His latest The Last Goodbye just blew me away. Richly descriptive and characters you feel as if you really know. Another MUST READ from this very talented author and a great addition to this gripping and very addictive series. Grips like a vice and twists like a rollercoaster. Impossibly clever. Impossible to put down. The Raker series never disappoints -- CHRIS WHITAKER Frank used to be a cop,’ she confirmed. ‘This is, uh… This is a big step for me, flying all the way out here. I just needed some moral support.’ Thank you to the author, publishers Michael Joseph and NetGalley UK for access to this as an advance reader’s ebook. This is an honest and voluntary review.

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Raker is pulled in to investigate what happened all those years ago and takes us through a thrilling ride. 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 . . .__________ As they’ve been queueing, Tom and Leo have been chatting almost constantly. It seems to come easily to them. A couple of times, Leo says something that makes Tom laugh and, on one occasion, Tom ruffles Leo’s hair. Leo spends quite a lot of his time in the queue pointing at things off camera – other rides, other sights at the fun fair. When they get to the final part of the queue – where the line runs along the front of the ghost house – the two of them start gesturing to the middle section of the structure: the slanted windows that look so much like eyes; the punctures in the edifice which imitate the shape of flared nostrils; then the big, open doorway that looks like a mouth, broken at the sides to give it more of an oval shape. Grips like a vice and twists like a rollercoaster. I mpossibly clever. Impossible to put down' CHRIS WHITAKER Still, I held out hope that maybe Fiona could prove me wrong. I would have loved it if she had genuinely walked out on her kids, because that's an interesting mother to write about. I would have loved it if she genuinely resented her children, because that's an interesting woman to write about. When the book ended with a letter from Fiona expressing motherly love (despite her daughter spending decades believing she didn't love her family), I was so bored I skipped it. It seemed as though Fiona was being placed into the stereotype of how mothers are supposed to act, rather than being allowed to flourish into a flawed, but fascinating, three-dimensional figure.A father and son disappear from a theme park ride, while years ago a mother walks away from her children and is never seen again. It’s down to David Raker to find out the truth. Can both cases be related?