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

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On a BBC Radio Somerset interview, when asked about Raker's background, Weaver described how he drew on his own traumatic battle to have a child. Rebekah seeks answers to her mother’s disappearance and asks for the help of missing persons investigator David Raker who soon discovers that these cases are not unrelated after all.

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. Saying that though, I did manage to get my head around it all and can definitely describe this as a twisty page turner. The police have not been fans of his at any stage of his career really and a storm seems to be gathering. Raker is hired by Rebekah Murphy to find out what happened to her mother, Fiona, who vanished on Boxing Day 1985 as she has recently received a card claiming to be from Fiona. She's also stuck with a thick as shit assistant, has some brilliant comebacks, and at the end of the day she's not bad at her job.It seemed as though Fiona was being placed into the stereotype of how mothers are supposed to act, rather than being allowed to flourish into a flawed, but fascinating, three-dimensional figure.

Having read all of the previous novels; this maintains the intrigue, suspense and complexity of investigating missing people and it's not necessary to have read the earlier books, but, if you haven't you're in for a treat. Decades earlier, a woman walks out on her family with no warning and yet now starts making contact with her daughter. I've read most of the David Raker series and really enjoyed all of them so was thrilled to have the opportunity to read The Last Goodbye, number 12 in the series.I am impressed at the author’s skill in this respect because I usually lose interest in this scattergun like approach, but this I found intriguing.

In a narrative that goes back and forth in time, Raker begins his inquiries and soon finds himself slipping into shocking, surprising and more dangerous territory than he could possibly have imagined.On the night Tom Brenner and his nine-year-old son Leo visit the Seven Peaks theme park, they head straight for the ghost house. When she suddenly starts receiving condolence cards through the post who she thinks are from her mother. There is also a strand of the plot which relates to David’s friend Healy, now in prison for faking his own death. Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view. The novel is told from various points of view and not just in the present as there are flashbacks to 1985 when a man arrives in England for the first time.