Chasing the Dead: 1 (David Raker Mystery)

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Chasing the Dead is the first in the series and Raker is hired to find Alex Towne by his mother Mary, although reported dead she confirms, to our finder of lost people, that her son is alive.

You get to see a lot of his background in the second story, but this one put things into a whole new, complete, perspective for me. I’d always liked the investigative parts of journalism, the dirty work, the digging, more than I had liked the writing. It starts off with an appropriately mysterious meeting between a pair of children, moves to a busy mother's innocuous day that we know is leading to trouble, and then begins a fast-paced thriller chase that keeps inching up the scare factor.But when Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's house, she finds the front door unlocked and no one inside.

I came to Joe Schrieber by way of "Death Troopers," one of my favorite Star Wars novels (and one of the two genuine horror novels in the franchise). He is also 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 .This was my first encounter with the writing of Joe Schreiber, and based on this book there will be more. His latest assignment is to find Alex, a young man who was killed in a car accident, but whose mother swears she's seen him alive.

The big secret generates violence that escalates and becomes increasingly and disturbingly intimate as the story progresses. I pushed the doubt down with the sadness and anger and found the girl three days later in a bedsit in Walthamstow. Concludendo, non posso fare altro che consigliare questa lettura a tutti gli amanti del genere, sperando che il volume successivo venga pubblicato presto! The final showdown is an unintelligible mess that left me rereading the pages multiple times, trying to visualize how the actions described actually occurred. We first met Joe Pullman in Napier's 2005 debut, Summer of the Cicada, which opened with him being beaten to a pulp by his father.

MY THOUGHTS: Chasing the Dead by Tim Weaver is an excellent start to a series that I have been reading in a piecemeal manner. I think this would make a better Scream-style movie than book and can't recommend it for anyone looking for more than cursory horror/suspense. With interesting characters and a gripping writing style, you will not be able to put down the book.