Chasing the Dead: The gripping thriller from the bestselling author of No One Home (David Raker Missing Persons, 1)

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The Drum – Specsavers and Penguin team up to let crime fans create #youdunnit novella through social media". thedrum.com/. 13 September 2013 . Retrieved 18 November 2013. Ayo: Were you a reader of crime fiction before you started writing it and if so can you remember the very first crime novel that you read?

Raker is once again enlisted by a family whose teenage daughter has gone missing. Using some unorthodox and sometimes illegal investigative techniques allows Raker to follow some seemingly random but ultimately connected leads to an unsolved case involving Milton Sykes who allegedly and notoriously murdered 13 girls a century before. It's remarkable how Raker is able to find these leads despite the police having a dedicated task force searching for the same missing girl. Then there are more missing girls, a paranoid Russian criminal and his personal plastic surgeon, and a dead police officer. But how are all these characters connected? Vanished” (Εξαφανισμένος/η). Κι ευτυχώς ακολουθούν πολλά ακόμη (11 στο σύνολο), για να έχουμε να περιμένουμε! I thought about this quote also while reading this book, though here less figuratively but literally.

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Ayo: In Chasing The Dead there is a great sense of place, in this case South Africa. How important was this and what is your relationship with South Africa? Weaver ανοίγει συγχρόνως πολλαπλά «μέτωπα» αλλά ως δια μαγείας κατορθώνει και τα διαχειρίζεται όλα άριστα. Πραγματικά είναι αξιοθαύμαστο το πώς μπορεί και δουλεύει τόσες διαφορετικές πλοκές μεταξύ τους, χωρίς να δημιουργεί κομφούζιο στο μυαλό του αναγνώστη. Η ατμόσφαιρα είναι εξόχως σκοτεινή και στη διαδρομή συναντάμε σκηνές που μπορεί να σοκάρουν και τον πιο «σκληραγωγημένο» αναγνώστη. Απόλαυσα ιδιαίτερα την συγκροτημένη σκέψη του Ρέικερ και τις διαδικασίες που ακολουθεί, οι οποίες είχαν ύφος κι άρωμα true crime. Από πλευράς ανατροπών δε θα πω ότι έγινε ο κακός χαμός αλλά η μία που μας πρόσφερε ήταν πολύ δυνατή και φυσικά εντελώς απρόσμενη. Εγώ τουλάχιστον, δεν την είδα να έρχεται ποτέ! Tim: I need total silence, and need to be nowhere near a TV, as I’m easily distracted. We’ve got a spare room/office, which I use in the summer, but it’s like a refrigerator in the winter, so I tend to come downstairs where the warmth is between about October and February. Chasing the Dead is the debut thriller from Tim Weaver, the first in the chilling David Raker series.

Tim: I’m still trying to finish it, so it’s in a very rough state but basically the premise is this: Raker is approached by a woman whose husband got onto the Tube one morning – and never got off again. Chasing the Dead is the first book in the extremely popular David Raker series which was published in 2010 and the latest book (10) No One Home is being published in May 2019. The first three thrillers in the stunning David Raker series - for the first time in one unique bundle 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 * MY THOUGHTS: Chasing the Dead by Tim Weaver is an excellent start to a series that I have been reading in a piecemeal manner.

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Once again the story was well crafted and paced superbly. Snippets of information is revealed steadily and I had fun trying to work things out before it was revealed to me. While I didn't see some twists coming there was one thing that instantly set warning sirens off in my head. I wasn't 100% accurate but I did have some idea of what was coming. Tim Weaver (born 1977) is an English writer primarily known for his crime thrillers featuring missing persons investigator David Raker. BELL, τη νέα πολύ επιτυχημένη σειρά, του Tim Weaver, με θέμα υποθέσεις εξαφανισμένων προσώπων. Το «Κυνηγώντας τους Νεκρούς» είναι το πρώτο βιβλίο της σειράς «Υποθέσεις Εξαφανισμένων Προσώπων», η οποία καθώς φαίνεται θα κάνει θραύση και στη χώρα μας! Πρόκειται για μια λαμπρή δουλειά από πλευράς του συγγραφέα Tim Weaver και μια εξαιρετική μετάφραση από τον αγαπημένο μας Βαγγέλη Γιαννίση! Ότι και να πω είναι λίγο, γι’ αυτό θα προσπαθήσω να είμαι σύντομη και περιεκτική. Θα προσπαθήσω είπα. Μην το δέσετε και κόμπο! ;-) Ayo: What makes a character real for you? Must you work everything out about them before hand or do you just let it flow? Di David Raker viene detto: “Ti manca quel meccanismo che avverte le persone quando il troppo è troppo. Non sai quando fermarti. Continui a tappare buchi in giro per il mondo solo perché sai cosa si prova a perdere una persona, e non vuoi che nessun altro debba sopportarlo. Lo stai facendo per LEI. Il caso dell’anno scorso era per LEI. E anche questo. Stai riempiendo il vuoto che si è lasciata dietro accollandoti le sofferenze degli altri. Io non posso competere con questo.”

Specsavers National Book Award – Crime & Thriller of the Year". nationalbookawards.co.uk/. 18 November 2013 . Retrieved 18 November 2013.Tim Weaver is the author of currently two books featuring David Raker an investigator who finds missing people. He has a fondness for 80s action movies which he has transferred to his character. Tim: He does have a sad personal life, but again I wanted to try to aim for something a little different. There’s a great tradition in the genre of detectives avenging the murder of a loved one – I’m thinking of brilliant books like Every Dead Thing here – so I didn’t want to compete directly with that. Raker’s wife dies after a long and ultimately unsuccessful battle with breast cancer, and I think, in many ways, he does what he does – and goes as far as he does – to fill the gap she’s left behind. But, perhaps more importantly than even that, her death runs parallel to his work as an investigator: she’s not missing like the people he’s trying to find, but she’s missing from his life and, for him, that’s enough. Skillfully Tim Weaver has developed complex and compelling characters in this novel like observant, resourceful and tenacious David Raker who never gives up his search for Megan; police officer Colm Healey plagued by the loss of his daughter is vengeful, unpredictable, arrogant and resentful; and secretive Megan Carver, the unlikely runaway who’s a smart student and obedient daughter.