Tim Weaver

Tim Weaver is the Sunday Times bestselling author of twelve thrillers, including You Were Gone and No One Home. He has been nominated for a National Book Award, twice selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club, and shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.

He is the host and producer of the chart-topping Missing podcast and is currently developing an original TV series with the team behind Line of Duty.

He returns to our bookshop for his thrilling new book, The Blackbird. David Raker is back with another heart-pounding and tense missing persons case.

AN IMPOSSIBLE DISAPPEARANCE

Just before the crash, Cate and Aiden Gascoigne are recorded on CCTV.
The couple are laughing, happy.
Then their car plunges into a ninety-foot ravine.
Within seconds, the vehicle is an inferno – and the Gascoignes are trapped inside. But when fire crews arrive, they find something impossible.

The vehicle is empty.
Cate and Aiden have vanished.

A NOTORIOUS MURDER

Missing persons investigator David Raker is hired by Cate’s family to find out what happened.
But this is a mystery that won’t easily give up its secrets.
As Raker links Cate and Aiden’s disappearance to an unsolved thirty-year-old murder, he doesn’t realise he’s set something terrible in motion . . .

WHAT CONNECTS THEM IS TERRIFYING

. . . and it will bring him and his ally, former detective Colm Healy, into the crosshairs of a killer like no other.