Book description
Chasing the Dead is the debut thriller from Tim Weaver, the
first in the chilling David Raker series.
One year ago, Alex Towne's body was found.
One month ago, his mother saw him on the street.
One week ago, David Raker agreed to look for him.
Now he wishes he hadn't.
Mary Towne's son, Alex, went missing six years ago. Five years later
he finally turned up - as a corpse in a car wreck. Missing persons
investigator David Raker doesn't want the work: it's clearly a sad but
hopeless case of mistaken identity brought to him by a woman unable to
let go of her son. But haunted by a loss of his own, Raker reluctantly agrees.
Big mistake.
For as he digs deeper, he discovers that Alex's life was not the
innocent one his mother believed. Buried in his past are secrets that
were never meant to be found - and dark, dangerous men willing to kill
to protect them.
Soon Raker will discover that there are things far worse than death
. . .
Tim Weaver is a new talent, fans of Mo Hayder and Michael Marshall
Smith will love his work. Chasing the Dead is the first in the
David Raker series, following the missing persons investigator. Later
works in the series include The Dead Tracks and Vanished.
Praise for Tim Weaver:
'Impressive debut . . . Fans of Mo Hayder will be in seventh
hell' Guardian
'Perfect plotting, great characterisation, and the kind of
payoff that a thriller of this calibre deserves' Bookgeeks
'A taut thriller' Barry Forshaw
Tim Weaver was born in 1977. At eighteen, he left school and started
working in magazine journalism, and has since gone on to develop a
successful career writing about films, TV, sport, games and
technology. He is married with a young daughter, and lives near Bath.
Vanished is Tim's third David Raker novel, which follow his highly
acclaimed debut Chasing the Dead and its sequel, The Dead
Tracks. Tortured by his wife's early death, David Raker is one of
the most charismatic, sensitive and unique missing persons
investigators in current crime fiction.
Tim Weaver was born in 1977. At 18, he left school and started
working in magazine journalism, and has since gone on to develop a
successful career writing about films, TV, sport, games and technology.
He is married with a young daughter, and lives near Bath.
Chasing The Dead
is his first novel.
