The Dead Tracks is the second in the David Raker series from Tim Weaver, host of the chart-topping podcast Missing. A serial killer more terrifying than you could ever imagine...Seventeen-year-old Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. A straight - A student from a happy home, she studied hard and rarely got into trouble. Six months on, she's never been found. Missing persons investigator David Raker knows what it's like to grieve.
He knows the shadowy world of the lost too. So, when he's hired by Megan's parents to find out what happened, he recognizes their pain - but knows that the darkest secrets can be buried deep. And Megan's secrets could cost him his life. Because as Raker investigates her disappearance, he realizes everything is a lie. People close to her are dead. Others are too terrified to talk. And soon the conspiracy of silence leads Raker towards a forest on the edge of the city.
A place with a horrifying history - which was once the hunting ground for a brutal, twisted serial killer. A place known as the Dead Tracks...Hot on the heels of Chasing the Dead, The Dead Tracks by Tim Weaver revisits David Raker and his complex missing persons cases. Fans of Mo Hayder's Gone and Michael Marshall Smith's The Straw Men should look this way.
About the Author
Tim Weaver is the bestselling author of Chasing the Dead, The Dead Tracks, Vanished, the Richard and Judy Book Club selection Never Coming Back, and most recently What Remains. All his thrillers feature missing persons investigator David Raker. Tim Weaver has been nominated for a National Book Award and shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library Award, which considers an author's entire body of work. A former journalist and magazine editor, he lives near Bath with his wife and daughter.
Industry Reviews
Weaver has delivered another cracking crime thriller * Daily Mail *
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It had me racing to the end -- Fiona Barton * Sunday Times bestselling author of The Widow *
The rising star of British crime -- Tony Parsons * Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of the DC Max Wolfe series *
The writing is beautiful and the plot so cleverly constructed I never guessed any of the twists -- Claire Douglas * Sunday Times bestselling author of Local Girl Missing *
Tim Weaver writes books so meticulously researched that the reader is educated as well as entertained, enthralled and intrigued -- Liz Nugent * Sunday Times bestselling author of Lying in Wait *
I couldn't put it down * Sun *
Fans of Mo Hayder will be in seventh hell * Guardian *
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 *
Weaver's books get better each time - tense, complex, written with flair as well as care * Guardian *
Terrific * Sunday Times *
A dark, complex and visceral read * Financial Times *
The story-telling is little short of brilliant * Crime Fiction Lover *
Perfect plotting, great characterisation, and the kind of payoff that a thriller of this calibre deserves * Bookgeeks *
