Chasing the Dead: 1 (David Raker Mystery)

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Some readers did not like the book and found it to be too unbelievable to be real and some found that they had to leave their brains behind when they read the book. Some found that the book takes a turn at one point in the novel into territory that makes it not believable. Some found that even after they had finished reading the book, they could not remember any specific details of what had gone on in the book. Readers found that some of the escapes that David is able to make to be a little far fetched and unlikely, given the torture that he is put through. Tim: Actually, I’ve never really seen David Raker as a PI, at least not in the traditional sense. He has some of those traits, of course he does, but the reason I made him a missing persons investigator and not a cop, or an ex-cop, or an ex-cop that’s now a PI, is because there were huge authors already covering very similar ground and I wanted something just a little different. Missing persons has a very emotional core: as parents, as children, as friends, we can imagine what it must be like to see a person you love dearly vanish into thin air, never to be seen again. How do you begin to cope with that when you don’t know if that person is even dead or alive? It’s loss, but a skewed sense of loss, and one with no closure. You can’t move on if you don’t have a body to bury. I thought that would give the books, and Raker himself, a bit of heart. That’s plenty of hardness in crime fiction, and you need that element – and that’s in the books too – but I wanted Raker to have empathy for the people who came to him, and be a kind of sympathetic action man. For me, he’s a psychologist as much as an investigator.

Tim Weaver book published Chasing the Dead". This is Somerset. 17 February 2010 . Retrieved 1 September 2013. MY THOUGHTS: Chasing the Dead by Tim Weaver is an excellent start to a series that I have been reading in a piecemeal manner. Specsavers National Book Award – Crime & Thriller of the Year". nationalbookawards.co.uk/. 18 November 2013 . Retrieved 18 November 2013.

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Tim Weaver (born 1977) is an English writer primarily known for his crime thrillers featuring missing persons investigator David Raker. What I enjoyed most about “Chasing the Dead” was the strong sense of place, the willingness to confront the seedy and unpleasant without wallowing in it and mastery of pace shown in the writing and the plotting. The reason I'm wavering between three and four stars is because whilst I really enjoyed it on the most part, it kept me up till 3am reading, the ending was a little ridiculous. I did really enjoy how the loose ends were tied up, as for one moment I was convinced it wasn't going to. Weaver μας συστήνει το David Raker, πρώην δημοσιογράφο και νυν ερευνητή εξαφανισμένων προσώπων, ο οποίος καλείται να βρει ένα νεαρό άντρα ο οποίος εξαφανίστηκε προ 6ετίας κι όλως παραδόξως εμφανίστηκε προσφάτως, σα θύμα αυτοκινητικού δυστυχήματος. Οι έρευνές του τον οδηγούν σε πολύ σκοτεινά μονοπάτια, στα έγκατα μιας επικίνδυνης σέκτας, η οποία δεν θα διστάσει να φυλακίσει, βασανίσει ή ακόμα και σκοτώσει, προκειμένου να κρατήσει κρυφά τα ζοφερά μυστικά της. Tim Weaver, η πρώτη σκέψη που μου πέρασε από το μυαλό ήταν ότι αν το πρώτο βιβλίο της σειράς με πρωταγωνιστή τον ιδιωτικό ντεντέκτιβ Ντειβιντ Ρεικερ, ιδιωτικό ερευνητή εξαφανισμένων προσώπων, είναι τόσο καλό τα επόμενα πως θα είναι?

A gripping plot, a creepy atmosphere and a mystic aura over it. At some point though I started to worry that it would turn into a paranormal story, so weird it was! Thanks God, no genre changing. But still, I found the second part of the book a bit too much: there were just TOO MANY life-threatening situations for one person in one book. I am glad that David managed to escape every time he was almost killed, but it started to get on my nerves and the whole "OMG" and "THANKS GOD HE DID IT AGAIN" became less credible.

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Ayo: I understand that your first novel Chasing the Dead took a long time to write. How long did it take to write? Tim: Not as much as I’d like. I’ll be honest, when I’m writing a book, I don’t read at all. Not because I don’t want to, but because I find other books start interfering with my thought processes. I start to worry one of my characters is like one of theirs, or my story is the same as theirs, and it just makes everyone’s life – and I include agent, editor and family in this – a total misery. During my down time, I read as much as I can, though. I recently finished The Road on audio book, about five years after everyone else, and I’m currently ploughing through Stephen King’s Full Dark, No Stars. ABOUT THIS BOOK: It starts out as a sad but hopeless case of mistaken identity. A year after the death of her son Alex, Mary Towne is convinced she's seen him alive - and wants missing persons investigator David Raker to find him. Reluctant at first, but haunted by a loss of his own, Raker eventually agrees. Chasing the Dead – Tim Weaver – Penguin Books". Penguin.co.uk. 7 July 2011 . Retrieved 1 September 2013. Ayo: What makes a character real for you? Must you work everything out about them before hand or do you just let it flow?

Weaver's books get better each time - tense, complex, written with flair as well as care * Guardian * As he continues with the investigations, he realizes that there was more to Alex’s life than met the eye. Indeed, Alex was not the innocent person that his mother knew, as his life was full of sinister events whose secrecy was guarded by men who would do anything to ensure that the secrets were not disclosed, including killing anyone who insisted on knowing them. David is later to learn that death is not the worst thing that can happen to a person.

Tim Weaver’s David Raker books in order:

Definitely not for the squeamish, this book is violent and gritty. How much can one human being endure before he's a broken man? David Raker is pushed to his limit. The complex character throughout the series, David Raker, is charged with the responsibility of investigating the case. Just like Tim, David Raker is a former journalist. We learn that he left his job to nurse his ailing wife, who finally dies. David is reluctant to take the task of investigating Alex Towne’s disappearance, but remembering the loss of his own, he finally agrees, and this signifies the beginning of trouble for him. With the growing popularity of Tim’s novels and given that he now writes full time, he is poised for great success. A case in point, Fall from Grace was the second biggest selling book in England the week in which it was released and Tim’s works has been nominated for a National Book Award and for the Crime Writer’s Association Dagger.

Tim: I’m still trying to finish it, so it’s in a very rough state but basically the premise is this: Raker is approached by a woman whose husband got onto the Tube one morning – and never got off again. We meet David Raker, an investigator into missing persons and a recent widower who has been asked to find a colleagues missing son who disappeared 5 years ago, his body was found in a burnt out car a year ago, but his mother swears she saw him walking across the street within the past few months.Weaver's books get better each time - tense, complex . . . written with flair as well as care' Guardian Ayo: Were you a reader of crime fiction before you started writing it and if so can you remember the very first crime novel that you read?