David has a lot on his plate and has to use all his ingenuity to stay one step ahead of a particularly nasty enemy as well as the police.

The Last Goodbye - Penguin Books UK

But one disappearance leads to another that Raker believes is linked and things begin to get very dicey indeed. The novel has it all, well, maybe not romance, with an interesting plot, violence, hidden agendas, jaw dropping twists, a genuinely creepy opponent, tension and some unexpected history. Keeping up with these intricacies may prove challenging, but it is a testament to Weaver's skill that he maintains a sense of clarity amidst the complexity. A wall of warm air hit me as I entered the hotel foyer, lights blinking in an elaborate Christmas tree off to my right.This latest missing person case is another nonstop thrill ride with a seamless plot which just keeps on giving in this highly engaging series, I highly recommend the whole series. With her father and brothers now dead, Rebekah has come back to Britain accompanied by former NYPD cop, Frank Travis, hiring Raker, feeling a void within her, a need to know what happened to Fiona. Weaver always pulls me in with a great synopsis, here we have a father and son going missing at the fair after stepping into the ghost house and never coming out.

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Raker is asked to help Rebekah who is trying to find out what happened to her Mum who has been missing since 1985. As I approached the hotel, I briefly wondered how Rebekah was coping with this weather – and then, almost as quickly, realized she’d be coping just fine. In his wider career as a journalist, he has written about the long struggle he and his wife had to start a family. Worse, there's someone terrifying hiding in the shadows - and they're going to make sure the truth never comes out. His son comes up to the crook of his elbow and is wearing a bright yellow backpack and a pair of white Nikes, the red tick visible on them, even from a distance.This is not all that is coming at Raker, he finds himself under increasing strains and pressure with the imprisonment of Colm Healy, and the Met's DI Martine Parkes is intent on getting Healy to implicate Raker, the goal of her boss, Detective Superintendent Aiden Phillips.