Tim Weaver

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.

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

Book 11 in the David Raker series.

When Leonard Franks and his wife Ellie left London for their dream retirement in the seclusion of Dartmoor, everything seemed perfect. But then Leonard heads outside to fetch firewood from the back of the house - and never returns. 

Nine months later, Leonard's family turn to David Raker - a missing persons investigator with a gift for finding the lost. But nothing can prepare Raker for what he's about to uncover. Because, at the heart of this disappearance lies a devastating secret. And by the time Raker realises what it is, and how deep the lies go, it's not just him in danger - it's everyone he cares about.

Book 5 in the David Raker series.

On the night Tom Brenner and his nine-year-old son Leo visit the Seven Peaks theme park, they head straight for the ghost house. They go in. But they don't come out. Somewhere inside the ride, impossible as it seems, the two of them simply vanish. When Rebekah Murphy was three, her mother walked out of their childhood home and never returned. Nearly four decades on, Fiona Murphy is still missing. But then, out of the blue, a letter arrives in the post. It says it's from Fiona

Missing persons investigator David Raker is hired by Rebekah to find out if the letter is actually from Fiona. But this is a mystery whose secrets were never meant to be found. And as Raker starts to connect the dots from Fiona to the Brenners, he begins to realise he can't trust anyone - even the people closest to him...

Book 12 in the David Raker series.

Rebekah Murphy knows too much... She knows she's alone on an abandoned island with a killer on her trail. She knows that to get home to her children, she must survive long enough to understand why this is happening. She knows someone tried to kill her for a secret. What she doesn't know is what that secret is...

Detective Frank Travis doesn't know enough... He doesn't know where to find Louise Mason. He doesn't know how and why she vanished into thin air three months ago. He doesn't know the identity of the man last seen talking to her. But what he does know is that he's a week away from retirement - and if he doesn't find out where Louise went, no one will. 

What neither Rebekah nor Detective Travis realize is that each holds a missing piece from the same puzzle...

When Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's house, she finds the front door unlocked and no one inside. Dinner's cooking, the TV's on. Carrie, her husband and their two daughters are gone. When the police draw a blank, Emily asks missing persons investigator David Raker to find them. It's clear someone doesn't want the family found.

Book 4 in the David Raker series.

It's a night just like any other in the Conister home - but then Paul heads upstairs and never comes back. When his wife Maggie goes to see where he is, she can't find him. His phone and wallet are by the bed. The windows are locked from the inside. Paul has vanished. Missing persons investigator David Raker is an expert in locating the lost. So when he's hired by Maggie, he knows that in every disappearance - however impossible it seems - there's an answer. What he doesn't know yet is that his search for Paul Conister will become linked to three other mysteries . . . A night patrolman on the London Underground makes a deadly discovery. A cold case is reopened - but the key witness appears to no longer exist. And thousands of miles away, a random shooting may not be random at all. David Raker is key to unlocking the truth . . .

An hour after leaving home, Sam Wren gets onto a tube train - and never gets off again. No eyewitnesses. No trace of him on security cameras. Six months later, he's still missing. Sam's wife Julia hires David Raker to track him down, but he knows in missing person cases, the only certainty is that everyone has something to hide.

Book 3 in the David Raker series.

Colm Healy used to be one of the Met's best detectives. Until, haunted by the unsolved murders of a mother and her twin daughters, his failure to find an elusive killer left his life in ruins. 

Missing persons investigator David Raker is the only friend Healy has left. As they reopen the investigation together, Raker learns the hard way how this case breeds obsession - and how an unsolvable puzzle can break even the best detective. Their search takes them down a trail of darkness, unravelling a thread of tragedy, and forces them to sacrifice everything they have left.

Book 6 in the David Raker series.