The Dead Tracks" is the second in the David Raker series from Tim Weaver. 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 & 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. & 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. & 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 & his complex missing persons cases. Fans of Mo Hayder's " Gone" & Michael Marshall Smith's " The Straw Men" should look this way. Praise for Tim Weaver: " Impressive debut... Fans of Mo Hayder will be in seventh hell". (" Guardian"). " Perfect plotting great characterisation & 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 & started working in magazine journalism & has since gone on to develop a successful career writing about films TV sport games & technology. He is married with a young daughter & lives near Bath. " Vanished" is Tim's third David Raker novel which follow his highly acclaimed debut " Chasing the Dead" & its sequel " The Dead Tracks". Tortured by his wife's early death David Raker is one of the most charismatic sensitive & unique missing persons investigators in current crime fiction."