When Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's home, she discovers an unlocked front door, dinner on the table, and the refrigerator door standing open. What she does not find is her sister and sister's family. Carrie, her husband, and their two daughters have, quite literally, vanished into thin air. The police turn up nothing after not much more than a cursory investigation. It is at this point that Emily turns to her former boyfriend, David Raker. David has forged a new career as a missing persons investigator with quite a bit of success. So when Emily asks for his help to find her sister and her family, he is intrigued with the circumstances and agrees to help.
What David finds turns out to be much more than he anticipated. Amid cover-ups and a long trail of dead bodies, David may have just put himself in the line of fire.
In NEVER COMING BACK, writer Tim Weaver draws in his audience from the very first page. Rest assured that there is more than just one mystery going on here, and it is a nerve jangling investigation. The characters are very colorful each in his, or her, own individual way. Tim Weaver defines each of them so that are quite three-dimensional. Even the bit players have their own personalities.
While the characters are skillfully drawn, the real attraction in NEVER COMING BACK is the story of what is going on with these people. Spanning from a small English fishing village to Las Vegas, Nevada, readers are taken on a journey that they will not soon forget. One mystery seems to follow yet another one. However, it is the jaw dropping ending that will have you going "What! No wait! How can that be? How did I miss that?"
NEVER COMING BACK is written for people who enjoy helping to solve a good puzzle, or simply like going along for the ride. Either way, you are going to experience some heart stopping moments of terror going along with David as he tries to solve the mystery of a vanishing family. Treat yourself to NEVER COMING BACK today. Just don't forget to leave a few lights on and make sure the doors are all locked, although that might not really protect you.
A bestseller in the UK, this gripping thriller of a family
that vanishes into thin air is Tim Weaver's American debut
Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's house to find the
front door unlocked, dinner on the table, and the family
nowhere to be found-Carrie, her husband, and two daughters
have disappeared. When the police turn up no leads, Emily
turns to her former boyfriend David Raker, a missing persons
investigator, to track the family down. As Raker pursues the
case, he discovers evidence of a sinister cover-up, decades
in the making and with a long trail of bodies behind it
Tim Weaver's thrillers have been hugely popular in the UK,
and now Never Coming Back will introduce his beloved
character David Raker to American audiences. Set in Las
Vegas and a small fishing village in England, the novel is a
smart, fast-paced thriller sure to keep readers guessing
until the very end.
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