Author:Tim Weaver,Lee Ingleby,Joe Coen
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Chasing the Dead by Tim Weaver, read by Joe Coen and Lee Ingleby.
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 . . .
Praise for Tim Weaver
—— -Weaver's books get better each time - tense, complex, written with flair as well as care
—— GuardianThe writing is beautiful and the plot so cleverly constructed I never guessed any of the twists
—— Claire Douglas , Sunday Times bestselling author of Local Girl MissingIt had me racing to the end
—— Fiona Barton , Sunday Times bestselling author of The WidowTerrific
—— Sunday TimesI couldn't put it down
—— SunWeaver has become one of this country's most respected, bestselling crime writers, and he fully deserves to be . . . Catch him at once
—— Daily MailThe rising star of British crime
—— Tony Parsons , Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of the DC Max Wolfe seriesTim Weaver writes books so meticulously researched that the reader is educated as well as entertained, enthralled and intrigued
—— Liz Nugent , Sunday Times bestselling author of Lying in WaitA dark, complex and visceral read
—— Financial TimesFans of Mo Hayder will be in seventh hell
—— GuardianThe story-telling is little short of brilliant
—— Crime Fiction LoverPerfect plotting, great characterisation, and the kind of payoff that a thriller of this calibre deserves
—— BookgeeksClever, grown-up and totally gripping
—— Lisa JewellA topical, tense and addictive read
—— Good HousekeepingThe Good Girl looks set to be the next Gone Girl, with its dark compelling exploration of family secrets . . .
—— Seven Books to Read, House SevenNeill takes a light scalpel to online disaster in this exceptional dual-narrative
—— GraziaCracking
—— PrimaTwo families become embroiled in each other's lives and long buried secrets are unravelled. Contemporary issues are tackled here with both humour and realism, making for an engrossing read
—— My WeeklyNeill's characters are so cleverly depicted, you feel as if you've met at least one of them before
—— Voguebeautifully told… the reader is taken from heartbreak to hope via a series of twists and turns worthy of the best thrillers
—— LivingEDGEhighly entertaining
—— In Style‘In this dark and captivating novel, the different strands slowly but surely come together, and the result is that rare thing – a thriller that will break your heart’
—— MetroTaut psychological thriller that’s as sinister as it is thrilling. A real unputdownable effort that examines morality and privilege
—— Love It!Smart, seductive… A sophisticated page-turner
—— Mackenzie Dawson , Angle NewsOsborne is a literary writer – and a brilliant one – and this sumptuously written superbly observed study of misplaced idealism and moral expediency reads a bit like a thriller penned by F Scott Fitzgerald
—— MetroMalevolent, gripping… A compelling read, acutely observed and beautifully written. For all the character defects of the principal protagonists, the reader wants to find out what happens to them. It matters. And there can be no higher praise than that
—— Richard Hopton , Country & Town HouseThis complex, thrilling novel focuses on Naomi Codrington, a young lawyer who befriends Samantha, a malleable American teenager, while summering with her father and stepmother on the Greek island of Hydra. When they find a Syrian refugee washed up on the shore, calamity comes rushes in.
—— The Mail on SundayThrilling, chilling and contains the following subtext: best stay at home
—— Strong WordsBirdcage Walk offers a persuasively grimy period evocation of contemporary domestic peril facing women, not least in an agonising childbirth scene that has traumatic consequences
—— Anthony Cummins , MetroGripping historical drama
—— Irish Country MagazineA story of idealism and possessive love, with strong and memorable characters
—— Choice MagazineHelen definitely has a deft touch when it comes to history but the vividness of Lizzie and Diner's relationship is what stands out in glorious literary 3D. Speaking as someone raised in Bristol, I'll never be able to gaze down into the Gorge again without seeing that rowing boat. Bleak can be hauntingly beautiful and between these covers Helen demonstrates how
—— The BookbagShe vividly brings to live the struggle of women’s lives in late 18th century Bristol, and I recommend the book for an insight into Bristol in another time
—— Western Daily PressFrom the swish of a silk dress, to the whoosh of the guillotine, Dunmore uses words with economic precision to build up the detail and suspense of this novel. Which haunts the reader just as the characters in it are haunted by the dead.
Flawless final historical novel from the late, great Helen Dunmore
—— Woman & HomeA lively and inventive voice … by all account as brilliant as her other books
—— Good HousekeepingEarly feminism and a hint of Grand Designs: a great mix’
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