Ayo: I understand that your first novel Chasing the Dead took a long time to write. How long did it take to write? Weaver μας συστήνει το David Raker, πρώην δημοσιογράφο και νυν ερευνητή εξαφανισμένων προσώπων, ο οποίος καλείται να βρει ένα νεαρό άντρα ο οποίος εξαφανίστηκε προ 6ετίας κι όλως παραδόξως εμφανίστηκε προσφάτως, σα θύμα αυτοκινητικού δυστυχήματος. Οι έρευνές του τον οδηγούν σε πολύ σκοτεινά μονοπάτια, στα έγκατα μιας επικίνδυνης σέκτας, η οποία δεν θα διστάσει να φυλακίσει, βασανίσει ή ακόμα και σκοτώσει, προκειμένου να κρατήσει κρυφά τα ζοφερά μυστικά της.

Tim: I have a character arc planned out for Raker, which will see him through the first four books. Beyond that, I think it’s definitely a case of letting it flow!Tim: Actually, I’ve never really seen David Raker as a PI, at least not in the traditional sense. He has some of those traits, of course he does, but the reason I made him a missing persons investigator and not a cop, or an ex-cop, or an ex-cop that’s now a PI, is because there were huge authors already covering very similar ground and I wanted something just a little different. Missing persons has a very emotional core: as parents, as children, as friends, we can imagine what it must be like to see a person you love dearly vanish into thin air, never to be seen again. How do you begin to cope with that when you don’t know if that person is even dead or alive? It’s loss, but a skewed sense of loss, and one with no closure. You can’t move on if you don’t have a body to bury. I thought that would give the books, and Raker himself, a bit of heart. That’s plenty of hardness in crime fiction, and you need that element – and that’s in the books too – but I wanted Raker to have empathy for the people who came to him, and be a kind of sympathetic action man. For me, he’s a psychologist as much as an investigator.

Tim Weaver (born 1977) is an English writer primarily known for his crime thrillers featuring missing persons investigator David Raker. With the growing popularity of Tim’s novels and given that he now writes full time, he is poised for great success. A case in point, Fall from Grace was the second biggest selling book in England the week in which it was released and Tim’s works has been nominated for a National Book Award and for the Crime Writer’s Association Dagger. David Raker isn't entirely convinced, but Mary has enough evidence to intrigue him. And then he meets a woman who is legally dead.Tim: I’ve just always grown up reading series characters, so the idea felt very natural to me. Authors like Michael Connelly were the reason I wanted to become a thriller writer in the first place, and I loved how Bosch changed from novel to novel. Each time he was slightly different. I also like the scope a series character gives you: you can build a world, and you can progress it, rather than having to build it all over again, every time. That’s not to say I wouldn’t like to have a bash at writing a standalone because I very definitely would, but I like the dynamics of a series. To me it’s like different seasons of a TV show: the events of one season impacts on those that follow, changing the character you get to know so well, in subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) ways. Tim: Definitely, ever since I was in my early teens. I was the weird kid who asked for a typewriter for his birthday and not Optimus Prime. Although, to save face, I asked for Optimus Prime too!

The rising star of British crime * Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of the DC Max Wolfe series * SOCA, την Υπηρεσία Δίωξης του Σοβαρού Οργανωμένου Εγκλήματος, τμήμα της οποίας είναι η NCIS, η Εθνική Υπηρεσία Εγκληματολογικών Πληροφοριών. Ο Επιθεωρητής Φρανκ Γουάιτ είχε πλησιάσει επικίνδυνα κοντά σ’ ένα μεγάλο κεφάλι ρωσικής συμμορίας, τον Ακίμ Γκόμπουλιεφ ή Φάντασμα, τον πλέον καταζητούμενο εγκληματία της SOCA. Ποιος σκότωσε λοιπόν τον Φρανκ και με ποια ταυτότητα βρίσκεται στην Αγγλία ο Γκόμπουλιεφ; Τα ερωτήματα ιντριγκάρουν τον Ρέικερ που βάζει κι άλλους μπελάδες στο κεφάλι του την ώρα που μπαίνει στο στόχαστρο και της αστυνομίας! Οι αρχιεπιθεωρητές Τζέιμι Χαρτ και Φίλιπς έχουν τους λόγους τους που δεν προχώρησαν την υπόθεση της Μέγκαν Κάρβερ κι όταν ο Ρέικερ παγιδεύεται για κάτι που δεν έκανε με μεγάλη χαρά τον συλλαμβάνουν, μόνο και μόνο για να αρχίσει ένα παιχνίδι γάτας και ποντικιού, μέχρι να μάθουν και οι δύο πλευρές τι ξέρουν ήδη, τι ψάχνουν, τι δεν πρέπει να βγει στο φως και για ποιους λόγους κι όλα αυτά όσο ο αρχιφύλακας Κολμ Χίλι, του οποίου η κόρη, Λιάν, εξαφανίστηκε τρεις μήνες πριν, κάνει τις δικές του παράλληλες έρευνες διψώντας για εκδίκηση. David Raker, a former journalist and now a missing persons investigator, who is still mourning for the loss of his beloved wife, is asked to look into disappearance and mysterious death of Alex Towne. During the investigation David bumped into much bigger mystery than just a disappearance and thereby put his life in acute danger.

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ComputerAndVideoGames.com – About Tim Weaver". ComputerAndVideoGames.com . Retrieved 18 November 2013. Perfect plotting, great characterisation, and the kind of payoff that a thriller of this calibre deserves' Bookgeeks Tim Weaver book published Chasing the Dead". This is Somerset. 17 February 2010 . Retrieved 1 September 2013.

Ayo: Were you a reader of crime fiction before you started writing it and if so can you remember the very first crime novel that you read? The writing is beautiful and the plot so cleverly constructed I never guessed any of the twists * Sunday Times bestselling author of Local Girl Missing * Tim: Absolutely. I’ve read crime fiction all my life. The very first thriller I ever read was Silence of the Lambs. I was about 14 at the time and it blew me away!Primo volume di una trilogia incentrata sulla figura dell’ex reporter David Raker, Morte sospetta è una grande opera d’esordio, un romanzo ricco di spunti e colpi di scena che riesce a catturare l’attenzione del lettore e, cosa molto importante, riesce a coinvolgerlo in quella che si rivela essere una vera e propria lotta contro il tempo. Chasing the Dead is the debut thriller from Tim Weaver, the first in the chilling David Raker series. This is the first book in the series introducing ex-journalist David Raker, who finds missing people. Having recently lost his wife to cancer, Raker has pursued the project his wife started him on and finds that he is good at it. But when Mary Towne employs him to find her son Alex, he doesn't realise what torments he is letting himself in for. Alex was supposed to have died in a car accident a year before but his body could only be identified through dental records - but a month ago Mary saw Alex walking through London, hence her plea to Raker to investigate. But Raker's investigations open him up to considerable danger as he gets involved with the workings of an organisation that will do anything to remain hidden.... MISSING by Tim Weaver on iTunes". itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/missing/id1034408710?mt=2 . Retrieved 2 September 2015.