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

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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. In The Last Goodbye, the renowned missing persons investigator is hired to find out if a mysterious letter from a mother who walked out of her daughter’s life almost 40 years ago is real – and whether it has any connection to a father and son who disappeared in an amusement park haunted house just a day ago… Grips like a vice and twists like a rollercoaster. The Last Goodbye is impossibly clever and impossible to put down…" –Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of 'We Begin At The End'

THE LAST GOODBYE - TIM WEAVER | Bestselling author

Weaver has a real skill of writing descriptively, bringing a variety of scenes to life, without the reader realising, placing the reader there in the story. ONE DEVASTATING SECRET: At first, the two disappearances - decades apart - seem unrelated. But as Raker digs deeper, he starts to unravel an elaborate history of lies binding the cases together. Worse, there's someone terrifying hiding in the shadows - and they're hoping the truth never comes out.... Find sources: "Tim Weaver"author– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( October 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

After a while, I began wondering why, although his books are a lot grittier and I don't agree with everything he's said re. politics, I found Anthony Horowitz's books just so much more appealing. And I eventually hit upon it: he lets women be bitches. 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? 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!

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As a fervent enthusiast of Tim Weaver's captivating David Raker series, I embarked on the twelfth instalment, "The Last Goodbye," with high expectations. Let me assure you, dear readers, that those expectations were not only met but exceeded. With its intricate web of events and constant sense of urgency, this novel effortlessly ensnares your attention from start to finish. Missing persons investigator David Raker is hired by Rebekah to find out if the letter is actually from Fiona – and, if it isn’t, why someone would pretend to be her. My issue with the Raker books has become the female characters. And I don't mean this in a bad way to Tim Weaver at all. But at a certain point, I realized that all of his female characters are completely interchangeable. 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. 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.This is an excellent addition to the series and although it works as a standalone I would recommend you read the whole series for full entertainment This is another gripping tale full of suspense that I really enjoyed from start to finish. I thoroughly enjoyed The Last Goodbye, which has an intricate plot that goes in a dark direction that I didn’t expect and some stunning twists on top of that. It’s what I regard as a proper grown up book, one that offers the reader the respect of assuming that they want depth along with the twists and turns and can cope with a lot of tension. Present day, Father Tom Brenner takes his son the local theme park to visit ‘The ghost house’ while they are waiting in the queue, they are called over to escape the queues and be let in. They enter the ghost house, but CCTV cameras show That Tom Brenner and his son Leo never come out. Where did they go? Are the two disappearance stories connected in some way?