The Last Goodbye: The heart-pounding new thriller from the bestselling author of The Blackbird

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The way things are left with Colm - long a favourite character of mine - made it obvious that this tale should have a Colm dimension and it does. I'm a huge fan of the David Raker series and The Last Goodbye floored me with its perfectly executed twists and tense, original premise.

Meanwhile Raker is hired by Rebekah Murphy, a British woman now living in New York, to dig into the disappearance of Rebekah’s mother back in 1985 – an old wound that has been reopened by recent letters. His last case revealed a man living under an assumed identity, one Raker had himself helped to create. She is in the UK to ask for Raker’s help to find her mother, who walked out of the family home in Cambridge nearly 40 years ago and vanished into thin air.Raker is a great character and as always well written and well plotted this was a one day read for me as I had to know! Rebekah (from Missing Pieces) decides she would like Raker to look into disappearance of her mother many years ago. Missing persons investigator David Raker is hired by Rebekah to find out if the letter is actually from Fiona – and, if it isn’t, why someone would pretend to be her.

Tim Weaver does an incredible job in not letting standards slip in his latest addition to his gripping specialist investigator David Raker series, a man who is willing to cross lines to find out what has happened to the missing people he looks for, even if it is the worst, so that his clients can find some sense of closure and perhaps peace. This book is quite far into the David Raker series and I am ashamed to say that this is the first book in the series I have read, despite owning a few. Who he is and his relevance to the investigation is unclear at first and even when his relevance is established who he is takes until the final chapters to be really clear. Expertly plotted and executed this book, as with the rest in the series, grabs you from the start and doesn’t let you go. Weaver always pulls me in with a great synopsis, here we have a father and son going missing at the fair after stepping into the ghost house and never coming out.To make matters worse, his friend, former Metropolitan Police Officer Colm Healy – a man most assumed to be dead – is in prison and a couple of officers are pressuring him to make a full confession, which would, undoubtedly, result in David losing his freedom too.

I eagerly anticipate the opportunity to immerse myself in the earlier works and discover the depths of character and storytelling that I have been missing. And with his closest ally under arrest and about to reveal some truths of his own, the danger to Raker is coming from all sides.Thanks to NetGalley and Michael Jospeh Penguin Random House for the opportunity to preview this excellent read in exchange for my honest review and congratulations to Tim Weaver, another triumph! It’s just the sort of mystery that Raker loves so well, and he is soon on the trail of Fiona Murphy, nee Camberwell. Big Island, LA connects the dots between a heist gone wrong at a police shooting range and corporate greed and political corruption, leaving a former combat marine and an agoraphobic crime reporter to sort out the mystery. I am impressed at the author’s skill in this respect because I usually lose interest in this scattergun like approach, but this I found intriguing.

With its intricate web of events and constant sense of urgency, this novel effortlessly ensnares your attention from start to finish. And this starts the sinister journey and dangerous findings exposing a deadly secret going back years.I’ve read them all and never got anywhere near the twists so this time I thought just relax and go with the flow and maybe that's the secret because this time I managed to figure out one small twist.