What Remains

Oh Mr. Weaver you got me good with a few of those twisty moments! <br /><br />It's rare that I have to admit that I did not see that coming. But that is precisely number one Weaver's talent: he writes stores that make sense in retrospect, but during that first read put you right into the thick of it with the protagonist, squeezing meaning out of every clue and desperately looking for connections. While this may seem like a simple description of crime fiction in general, it doesn't usually work out quite like that. Anyone who reads a lot of these kinds of books comes to feel the pattern within them, Chekhov's gun is in every character, offhand comment, piece of evidence... In most cases, I'm pretty sure what's going to happen or whoddidit. Tv shows and films are even easier by the very nature of their medium. But Weaver writes outside these boxes. He doesn't even show us the gun. We investigate. It's exciting, and added to the detailed but pacey writing style, these books are a winner of a choice.

Tim Weaver returns with another wonderful instalment of his David Raker series. I would go as far as saying this is his best ever.<br /><br />What do we get? Twisted plots, creepy piers, emotional turmoil, missing best friends and wonderful historical links. A totally gripping story. Your heart is guaranteed to stop at least once, during this read.<br /><br />I just LOVED it. This is a must read series, for anyone who loves a good thriller.<br /><br />Absolutely recommended!<br /><br />Please check out <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="http://lizlovesbooks.com/lizlovesbooks/what-remains-by-tim-weaver-a-discussion-part-one/">http://lizlovesbooks.com/lizlovesbook...</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://northerncrime.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/what-remains-by-tim-weaver-a-discussion-part-two/">https://northerncrime.wordpress.com/2...</a> where we happily talk about our love for Tim Weaver, this book and this series!

This is the 6th book in the excellent David Raker series by author Tim Weaver.<br /><br />David Raker specialises in searching for missing persons and is normally called up on when all the Police efforts have come to a screeching halt. One case that has haunted both Raker and associate Colm Healy is a case that changed Healy the ex Met detective for ever. The unsolved murders of a mother and her twin daughters that finished his career and ruined his family life. Now Colm Healy is asking David Raker to help solve the case that has caused him so much anguish and threatens to become Raker's toughest job yet.<br /><br />The usual helping's of twists and turns make this another excellent read. Great characters and teasing story-lines that are so well written. Excellent series that needs to be read from book 1 to fully appreciate.<br /><br />

OH MY GOD THIS BOOK! Emotional overload or what. I'm really wrung out! Anyway, I shall be joint reviewing this with Christine (Northern Crime) at a later date in the form of a conversation as we've been buddy reading it with much shrieking today. In the meantime though if you HAVENT read the Raker series what are you waiting for? GO GO<br /><br /><br />Collapses.

<br /><br />So why haven't I read one of Tim Weavers books before? That's going to change!<br /><br />I have been so enthralled and so deeply enmeshed in this book it would have been hard pressed to move me in an earthquake.<br /><br />This really did grab me right from the start. <br /><br />The storyline in this is so good, its nothing that I expected and much more, very much more.<br /><br />I thought it was going to be all about this detective who couldn't pull away from an unsolved crime [see authors blurb description] but its more detailed than this and included the detective himself.<br /><br />This has so much <b> RAW </b> emotion inside it, its unreal, I didn't expect to feel anything like the emotions I felt, not at all.<br /><br />The detective becomes a missing person and you are on the edge of this for its entirety so, turn your phone off, don't answer the door, put up a DO NOT BE DISTURBED sign on your location. You really need to read this from start to finish. My kindle said 11 hours........so either get someone else to cook dinner, throw something in the slow cooker and get them to help themselves or get them to phone for take out.<br /><br />Did I love this? You bet.<br /><br />If you've not read a book by this author can I urge you to read this.<br /><br />I so want to read the rest of the Rake series.<br /><br /><i> Let me thank the author for bringing such a fab book my way and to Penguin UK - Michael Joseph via Net Galley</i> as without this, I may have missed a superb enthralling rememerable book.

3,5 / 5<br />Oyun makinelerinin olayının açıklaması çok zorlama geldi bana. Daha iyi bir şeyler bekliyordum açıkçası ? <br />Bir de betimlemeler kitabın tuzu, biberi tamam da TW bu kitapta tuzu biraz abartmış sanki.

<br />What Remains by Tim Weaver is an enthralling thriller with a well written twisty plot. It’s his sixth novel involving missing persons investigator David Raker. This excellent story is very readable as a stand-alone with some of the back history slipped into this book to assist new readers to this acclaimed series. I haven’t read any of his previous work but it was clear from the start that the author writes good prose with interesting characters involved in layers of side stories running alongside the main plot.<br /> <br />David Raker decides to help an old friend in now ex-detective Colm Healy. A cold case from back in 2010, which Healy had failed to solve, is opened again. This case was responsible for breaking Healy and involved the awful murder of Gail Clark and her twin eight year old daughters Abigail and April. This was a difficult case and the tension quickly mounts as Healy goes missing and things get complicated for Raker. There is a lot of action and unexpected turns along the way to the finale of the book, which again took me by surprise. The last half of the book is completely gripping as Raker finds it all consuming and becomes as obsessed with concluding this case as Healy had.<br /><br />I can happily recommend this book to you and would have no doubt given it 5 stars if I was a reader of the series and had a closer attachment to main character Raker. Even so I think you will find it an excellent read which deals with powerful emotions, tragic events and is a story intricately told that will quickly have you in its grip. This is a book and a series well worth exploring further. (ARC Received)<br />

I love Tim Waever books and his main charachter Raker, a missing persons investigator. You can always look forward to a strong plot, believable characters and many edge of your seat moments. This is the sixth book in the series and it continues to make me want to read more, only problem is havig to wait for another to be wtitten. If you are looking for a new author, give Tim Weaver a try. I don't think he will disappoint you.

In this book Raker meets an old friend Colm Healy who has been haunted by the murder of Gail Clark and her twin daughters Abigail and April back in 2010, the case hadn’t been solved and Colm’s life had gone into freefall. First his job went, then his marriage, his house and his friends all disappeared, all except Raker. While the Missing Persons Private Investigator takes a little convincing, he eventually agrees and starts to investigate, but this time he has little to go on as the murdered woman has few social contacts to give him a lead. Still he still has some friends in useful places to assist should he find any corner to peel back, and of course he does, this is investigator extraordinaire, David Raker.<br /><br />This is a complicated, and long story at over 550 pages, and several times I thought that the end was in sight only for the plot to twist in a different direction often seemingly back on itself as Raker doesn’t only want to find out how the shadowy villains are connected but why they murdered two innocent eight year olds. The somewhat convoluted storyline is compensated for by the excellent writing, Tim Weaver captures a wide range of emotions better than any other crime writer I can think of, and although the pace was patchy in places I was engaged in the hunt for the perpetrator. As with the other two books in this series, there is a depth to the investigation with parts of London bought to life albeit with a dark shadow falling across the familiar and less known landmarks. With an almost ghostly feel to the investigation the setting on a disused pier in Wapping seemed perfectly suited as was the labyrinth of Camden market when a lead took the men to an antique shop.<br /><br />This book contained far more violence than the previous two, partly I suspect because of the nature of the fact that the investigation was into a murder rather than a missing person, but overall it didn’t feel gratuitous and the skill of the author had me genuinely concerned about the suffering inflicted on some of the characters.<br /> The real lynch-pin to the story is will Raker become as consumed by finding out what happened to Gail Clark and those two innocent girls as Healy was. Will he be able to live with himself, continue to build his life with his recently discovered daughter and maybe even a relationship if he doesn’t get a complete answer? What will remain indeed! <br /><br />I’d like to thank Penguin UK for allowing me to read What Remains which was published on 16 July 2015 in return for my honest opinion.<br />

For the first two thirds I couldn't put this book down, it was gripping if confusing. But then it became slow, drawn out and a bit fantastical. Still confusing, I became bored and wanted to get it finished. It was definitely too long, all was explained by the end but could have been 200 pages shorter.