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    Vanished
    Vanished
    Vanished
    Audiobook12 hours

    Vanished

    Written by Tim Weaver

    Narrated by Michael Healy

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook



    For millions of Londoners, the morning of 17 December is just like any other. But not for Sam Wren. An hour after leaving home, he 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.

    Out of options and desperate for answers, Sam's wife, Julia, hires David Raker to track him down. Raker has made a career out of finding the lost. He knows how they think. And, in missing person cases, the only certainty is that everyone has something to hide.

    But in this case the secrets go deeper than anyone imagined. For, as Raker starts to suspect that even the police are lying to him, someone is watching. Someone who knows what happened on the tube that day. And, with Raker in his sights, he'll do anything to keep Sam's secrets to himself . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 4, 2016
    ISBN9781515976622
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    • 3/5
      This book is about Reed's journey to save Noelle after Noelle was "kidnapped" during a ceremony of the Billing Literary Society. The "kidnappers" text Reed with 4 tasks to complete in order to keep Noelle alive, if Reed does not complete these tasks or tell if she tells anyone about the "kidnapping" Noelle will be killed. Okay so far so good, during the part about the three tasks and all that its a good book much like the ones before it in the series. Then the final task is to break up with Josh and that is a big sob seen and Reed does it and that is all well and good. Then the kidnappers send out fake cops to arrest Reed and they bring her to this run down shack and leave her their. Reed gets another text saying that if she wants to find Noelle she has to travel through the forest behind the shack and stay on the path that will lead to this observatory. So Reed goes into the woods, shockingly, she becomes paranoid and thinks that there is someone following her so she runs away from the path to through her "stalker" of her trail. She ends up getting lost for hours until she finally gets a note from the kidnappers saying she has to walk seven miles east and then she will find Noelle. Reed some how finds the strength and does reach the observatory to find Noelle slumped in a chair. Reed, being the heroine, runs up to Noelle to find that she is completely alright and in fact has makeup and hair styled. Reed is shocked and asks "What the hell?" to which Noelle responds."Everything is going to be okay Reed, I'm fine. In fact you are my sister." Reed is shocked after being put through everything to find that there are other women who are in on the prank. The entire Lange(Noelle's family) clan is ready to welcome Reed into their arms. So the story continues, Reed is upset but forgives everyone in the end, and Grandma Lange gives Noelle and Reed a key to a secret room in the Billings Chapel. And the story continues and guess what they are witches! Okay now after my summary my opinion. I believe that the series has taken a series nose dive into the land of Pretty little liars and other chick lit books. Do we really need another series where the two girls who are always at each others throats become sisters? Or another series where there are mystical beings like vampires, werewolves, and witches? Overall this book was a disappointment and honestly, I am not that excited to read the rest of them. We need to go back to the good old days when people weren't trying to kill Reed and Noelle every other chapter. But we most see what happens...
    • 3/5
      The following review may contain spoilers.Noelle is missing. Reed is receiving anonymous texts from Noelle’s kidnappers. In order for Noelle to be found alive, Reed must complete four assignments and by no means go to the police or solicit anyone’s help. Reed performs the assignments and awaits Noelle’s outcome.Eventually Reed and Noelle are reunited and the truth surrounding Noelle’s disappearance is revealed. The twist is meant to be shocking, but it’s so random (and anticlimactic) that I ended up not caring. However, the twist is a good segue for The Book of Spells, the next is the series focusing on the original Billings Girls. Its release date is December 21, 2010.
    • 3/5
      Having previously read the first two in the David Raker series, I can say the author has really hit his stride with #3. The story revolves around David Raker, missing person finder, who can't stop once he starts and Sam Wren who gets on the train and then seems to just vanish. Plot was well thought out, a real page turner. This book tones down the violence & choppiness I disliked in the first book of the series. It also makes one think about how much of your public life is on record for anyone with a little know-how to access.
    • 4/5
      "All of his novels were so fast-paced that the reader was compelled to turn the pages in a non-stop effort to reach the end of the book. The final page often produced a totally unexpected plot twist that would invariably leave even his most die-hard fans surprised. His early books contained some violence that matched the era in which they were written, though this was considerably toned down as plots centred more on circumstantial situations to create the high degree of tension that was the hallmark of his writing. Sex was never explicit and, though often hinted at, seldom happened" This is a Wikipedia description of James Hadley Chase, a prolific quaintly English crime writer of the 1950's, 60's 70's His novels were always tightly constructed, intricate without being overly complicated but at the same time fast and exciting reads. I do hope Tim Weaver will not mind when I compare his style of writing to that of Chase but with very modern twists and themes. From the opening paragraphs- of "Vanished" we the reader are immediately drawn in...."Healy looked down at the temperature readout as he pulled up outside the estate. Almost twenty degrees. It felt hotter than that. He'd had the air conditioning on all the way from the station but, on the journey over, nothing had cooled His sleeves were rolled up, his top button undone, but the car was still stifling. Even in the middle of the night, under cover of darkness, the heat continued to cling on....." And so we ask...who is Healy and why is he out in the middle of a hot and sultry English summer night?There are no wasted words in Vanished every page is readable and exciting drawing you in and inviting you to stay. The central character in all Weaver's books is David Raker an ex journalist who now uses his inquisitive skills hiring himself out as a kind of private detective to search for those individuals who have disappeared, desperately sought by loved ones who really only want to know why? Julia Wren hires Raker to find her husband Sam who disappeared some months ago, took an early morning London tube ride and was never seen again. Layer by layer, like the peeling of an onion, the twists and turns of this excellent thriller proceed at a terrific pace. The London underground/railway is used to great effect for the action scenes; the police are searching for The Snatcher and as his name suggests he removes his victims with stealth and cunning, is there any connection between this killer and the disappearance of Sam Wren? In the final chapters just when we the reader thought the killer had been successfully identified there is a Hadley Chase moment and a "totally unexpected plot twist." My favourite character and one who demands greatest sympathy is ex London met detective Colm Healy, he was one of the Met's best detectives - until the unsolved murders of a mother and her twin daughters consumed his career, his family and his life. Healy's world finally collapses when his own daughter Leanne disappears, soon to be the subject of a murder enquiry. Raker and Healy have a tenuous relationship and one can never be sure if the broken and distraught detective will finally succumb to suicidal thoughts.As an ardent reviewer and keen blogger I awarded this book with four stars simply because the early David Raker lacked a little of the oomph, vitality and sparkle of later adventures (What remains;David Raker 6 and Broken Heart;David Raker 7 are exceptional) Tim Weaver is an extraordinary talent whose love of writing and his wonderful storytelling ability is beyond reproach and I look forward with great anticipation the new Raker adventure due for release at the end of July 2017.
    • 5/5
      I absolutely love Tim Weaver's David Raker novels. Raker is a former journalist who now finds people who go missing. Weaver is brilliant at weaving an intricate story filled with thrilling twists and turns. Vanished is a book you never want to stop reading -- yet one you don't want to end either. He's a bigger hit in the UK, but expect to hear more of him in the U.S. as his star power gets noticed here. If you love thrillers, read this and his other novels.
    • 4/5
      Absolute page-turner, more twists and turns than a 'weaving' mountain road!
    • 5/5
      Well this had me hooked from the first page!David Raker is a compelling and fascinating character. "Vanished" is the third David Raker novel. Having not read the first two did not diminish the story for me and that is the sign of a very talented writer.Set in London and around the Tube station network, the mystery unfolds with one man's disappearance from a train journey. Sam Wren gets on a tube train one morning in December, and never gets off again. He vanishes in to thin air. His wife hires David Raker, a private investigator, to try and trace him or discover what happened to him. But Sam isn't the only man to vanish. Men are disappearing from their homes There is no sign of them, no forensic evidence....just a pile of shaved hair at the bottom of their beds. The police don't think the two disappearances are connected, but Raker isn't so sure.The pace of this novel is relentless. Tim Weaver manages to leave the reader almost breathless, so great is his descriptive writing and sense of malevolence. I found myself frantically turning the pages to see how things panned out. Weaver isn't frightened of dealing with frankly ghastly characters living on the fringes of society, but he doesn't sensationalise, just builds the tension more and more. I was literally scared and gasped on more than one occasion and it takes a lot to scare me.Now I just have to buy the first and second David Raker novels!