The Dead Tracks

By Tim Weaver

Review

The David Raker missing persons series is one of my favourites and I've read several books but not in publication order (very naughty of me I know!). I'm now going back and reading them in order. The Dead Tracks is the second book. 

Raker is searching for a missing student who vanished six months earlier. No trace of her has been found and her parents are desperate. As Raker investigates, he comes across a connection to a notorious serial killer from the past. All leads direct him to an eerie place known locally as the Dead Tracks. It's a place to avoid; a place to fear.

I've yet to be disappointed by a Tim Weaver book. His plots are always multi-faceted and thrilling. I very much enjoy the David Raker character and his drive for truth and justice. Raker has experienced loss and grief himself and this is explored throughout the series. The Dead Tracks is an excellent read with many twists and turns. It has some extremely gruesome moments which I thought were fantastic. I'm looking forward to reading the next in the series.

★★★★☆

• Print Length: 560 pages
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Year: 2011
• Author: Tim Weaver
• Genre: Crime, Thriller

Synopsis

Straight-A student Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. But six months on, she's never been found.

Missing persons investigator David Raker knows what it's like to grieve. He knows the shadowy world of the lost, too. So when he's hired by Megan's parents to find out what happened to her, he recognises their pain - but knows that the darkest secrets can be buried deep.

The more Raker digs, the more he realises everything is a lie. People close to Megan are dead. Others are too terrified to talk. And at the centre of it all is a place like no other.

They call it The Dead Tracks.

And there, Megan's secrets could cost Raker his life . . .