Showing results by author "Tim Weaver" in All Categories

For millions of Londoners, the morning of 17 December is just like any other. But not for Sam Wren. An hour after leaving home, he gets onto a tube train - and never gets off again. No eyewitnesses. No trace of him on security cameras. Six months later, he's still missing. Out of options and desperate for answers, Sam's wife, Julia, hires David Raker to track him down. Raker has made a career out of finding the lost. He knows how they think. And, in missing person cases, the only certainty is that everyone has something to hide.

When Leonard and Ellie Franks leave London for retirement in secluded Dartmoor everything seems perfect. Until their new life is shattered. One evening Leonard heads outside to fetch firewood - and never returns. Nine months later, with the investigation at a dead end, Leonard's family turn to David Raker - a missing persons investigator. Nothing could prepare Raker for what he uncovers. 

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of You Were Gone by Tim Weaver. Three days after Christmas, a woman walks into a police station. She has no phone and no ID, just a piece of paper with the name of investigator David Raker on it. She tells officers that Raker is her husband. When he turns up at the station, Raker is stunned. The woman looks exactly like his wife. She knows all about their marriage, their history, even private conversations the two of them had. There's just one problem: Raker's wife has been dead for eight years....

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. They go in. But they don't come out. Somewhere inside the ride, impossible as it seems, the two of them simply vanish. When Rebekah Murphy was three, her mother walked out of their childhood home and never returned. Nearly four decades on, Fiona Murphy is still missing. But then, out of the blue, a letter arrives in the post. It says it's from Fiona.

When a young man wakes up bruised, beaten and with no memory of who he, the press immediately dub him 'The Lost Man'. Ten months later Richard Kite remains as desperate as ever. Despite appeals and the efforts of the police, no one knows this man. Kite's last hope may be private investigator David Raker. But Raker has more questions than answers. Who is Richard Kite? Why does no one know him? And what links him to the body of a woman found beside a London railway line two years ago?

Ten seconds before the crash, Cate and Aiden Gascoigne are recorded on CCTV. The couple are laughing—happy, untroubled. Then their car plunges into a ninety-foot ravine. The impact should kill them. And if that doesn't, the fire will. Within seconds, the vehicle is an inferno—with the Gascoignes trapped inside. But when fire crews arrive at the scene, they find something impossible. The vehicle is empty. Cate and Aiden have vanished. Now only missing persons investigator David Raker can solve the mystery.

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.

It was supposed to be the start of a big night out. But when Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's house, she finds the front door unlocked and no one inside. Dinner's cooking, the TV's on. Carrie, her husband and their two daughters are gone. When the police draw a blank, Emily asks missing persons investigator David Raker to find them. It's clear someone doesn't want the family found. But as he gets closer to the truth, Raker begins to uncover evidence of a sinister cover-up, spanning decades and costing countless lives.

It's a night just like any other in the Conister home - but then Paul heads upstairs and never comes back. When his wife, Maggie, goes to see where he is, she can't find him. His phone and wallet are by the bed. The windows are locked from the inside. Paul has vanished. Missing persons investigator David Raker is an expert in locating the lost. So when he's hired by Maggie, he knows that in every disappearance - however impossible it seems - there's an answer. What he doesn't know yet is that his search for Paul Conister will become linked to three other mysteries.

The Clean Power Hour podcast is speeding the clean energy transition. Tim Montague and John Weaver highlight clean energy innovations shaping the next generation of renewable energy sources. We discuss the latest solar PV, battery storage, wind, water, wave, and other low-carbon technologies. We answer the question: How can we decarbonize the economy? We promote the economic opportunity of electrifying everything - transportation, energy, industry, and the built environment. Let's speed up the clean energy transition together. Join the movement - www.CleanPowerHour.com

Colm Healy used to be one of the Met's best detectives. Until, haunted by the unsolved murders of a mother and her twin daughters, his failure to find an elusive killer left his life in ruins. Missing persons investigator David Raker is the only friend Healy has left. As they reopen the investigation together, Raker learns the hard way how this case breeds obsession - and how an unsolvable puzzle can break even the best detective. Their search takes them down a trail of darkness, unravelling a thread of tragedy, and forces them to sacrifice everything they have left.

Un giovane uomo viene ritrovato presso la foce del Southampton Water contuso, malmenato e senza alcuna memoria di chi sia e da dove venga. La stampa si interessa subito a lui ribattezzandolo "l'Uomo smarrito" e diffondendone le immagini su tutto il territorio nazionale. Eppure, dieci mesi dopo, Richard Kite - sempre che questo sia il suo vero nome - è ancora alla disperata ricerca della propria identità. Nessuno, infatti, sembra conoscerlo, nonostante gli appelli e gli sforzi della polizia.

L'ultima traccia dell'esistenza di Lynda Korin è la registrazione video di una telecamera di sicurezza all'ingresso di Stoke Point, uno dei punti panoramici più suggestivi sulla costa del Devonshire. I fotogrammi la ritraggono alla guida della sua auto in procinto di varcare l'unico ingresso, poi più nulla. L'automobile viene ritrovata incustodita, nessun'altra testimonianza del passaggio di Lynda in quel luogo. Wendy Fisher, sorella della donna, incarica delle indagini il detective David Raker, specializzato nella ricerca di persone scomparse.

On Halloween night, the residents of Black Gale gather for a dinner party. As the only nine people living there, they've become close friends as well as neighbours. They eat, drink and laugh. They play games and take photographs. Except those photographs will be the last record of any of them. By the next morning, the whole village has vanished. With no bodies, no evidence and no clues, the mystery of what happened at Black Gale remains unsolved two and a half years on. But then the families of the missing turn to investigator David Raker - and their obsession becomes his.

Dopo la morte di sua moglie, portata via da un tumore improvviso, l'ex reporter David Raker cerca di rimettere insieme i pezzi della propria vita risolvendo su commissione i casi di persone scomparse. Il caso di Alex Towne è uno di questi. Ma Alex Towne non è semplicemente scomparso: Alex Towne è morto in un incidente d'auto, così brutalmente che gli inquirenti hanno dovuto identificare il suo cadavere dall'impronta dentale.

Quando Leonard Franks e sua moglie Ellie lasciano la vita caotica di Londra e si trasferiscono nel Dartmoor per trascorrere in serenità gli anni della pensione, non sanno che loro felicità è destinata a durare ben poco. In un tardo pomeriggio invernale, dopo essere uscito di casa per raccogliere della legna, Leonard scompare nel nulla. Nove mesi dopo, di lui nessuna traccia.

Il lavoro del detective David Raker consiste nel seguire tracce nascoste, evanescenti. La sua specialità è vedere dove gli altri non vedono, scovare dove chiunque altro non avrebbe neanche cercato. Colm Healy era tra i migliori detective in circolazione, fino a quando un caso di omicidio irrisolto - una donna uccisa insieme alle sue due figlie - non gli ha sconvolto la vita.

Megan Carver, diciassette anni, è una studentessa modello di una normale famiglia di Londra. La sua è una vita tranquilla, senza frequentazioni pericolose. Ma un giorno scompare. Nessun indizio, nessun testimone. Dopo sei mesi, le indagini della polizia sono a un punto morto. La famiglia, disperata, decide di rivolgersi al detective David Raker.

Interno notte. Le luci accese, la cena pronta, una tazza di latte rovesciata, forse nel corso di una colluttazione. Questa la scena che si presenta agli occhi di Emily Kane quando entra nell'appartamento di sua sorella Carrie. Della donna, invece, non c'è traccia. E insieme a lei sono scomparsi anche il marito e le due figlie. Un'intera famiglia cancellata, come non fosse mai esistita. I mesi successivi a quella maledetta notte vedono le indagini arrivare a un binario morto.

Londra, 16 dicembre. In una mattina apparentemente simile alle altre, Sam Wren sale sulla metropolitana, ma non fa più ritorno a casa. Nessuno lo ha visto e non è rimasta alcuna traccia del suo passaggio, nemmeno nei filmati delle telecamere di sicurezza. Dopo sei mesi di angoscia, la moglie Julia decide di rivolgersi a David Raker, che già in passato ha fatto luce su altri casi di scomparse misteriose.