Missing Pieces: The gripping and unputdownable Sunday Times bestseller 2021

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Meanwhile detective Frank Travis is trying to find a missing woman, Louise Mason, who vanished into thin air three months ago. Over the course of the novel and through some heated and fast paced chapters we soon uncover why she's stranded there, and why someone tried to kill her- something which she herself is not yet aware of. David is reluctant to take the task of investigating Alex Towne’s disappearance, but remembering the loss of his own, he finally agrees, and this signifies the beginning of trouble for him.

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However, I feel the sections on the island become overlong, there’s too much detail so it becomes repetitious and thus the attention wanders and it loses impetus. In New York, the tenacious Detective Frank Travis is close to retirement, working on the case of the missing artist, Louise Mason, but has got nowhere. As all the missing pieces of the title start coming together to form a cohesive reality, the plotting is genius and the truth is stunning in its complexity. His novels have been selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club three times, and his work has been nominated for a National Book Award and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. Just like in other stories in this series, as the investigations continue, Raker finds out many shocking truths of sinister events.As Rebekah’s life story is slowly unveiled, some answers are revealed but others are kept hidden and the sense of mystery increases as the book goes on. Her alone on and island and him in pursuit but I lost interest in the chases after a while and willed the author on to include and add something different to the storyline rather than fill up the pages with yet another chase!

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Rebekah Murphy's British mother, Fiona, left her American father, Henry and her two brothers, Johnny and Mike when she was so young that she can barely remember her, a mother who has virtually no contact with them throughout their lives.

She is trapped on an abandoned island cut off from her family and friends with someone trying to hunt her down and kill her. We, the readers are with that missing person, Rebekah, the principal character, as she desperately tries to survive on an island deserted out of season, out of communication, bitterly cold and a hundred miles out from Long Island, hoping that she will be found. I thought it was very amateurish and such a cliche to have the 'perpetrator' confess to all the killings and explain their motives to the 'victim' at gunpoint.

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Missing Pieces is told across two timelines; the present day and Before, at times they drifted into one and for that reason I nearly gave up as it was quite confusing which time the author was referring to, but I decided to give it a chance and I'm glad I did, because once I'd got my head round it, it was actually an enjoyable read. As this is a standalone story no knowledge of the Raker series needed however anyone trying this will probably want to read more. Rebekah Murphy's marriage seems like the perfect marriage until she finds another mobile phone in her husband's car.They are normal people with everyday problems and stresses and, somehow, it makes Bek’s predicament worse as she tries to work out who wants to kill her. I requested it, having read all of Tim Weavers previous novels and have been an admirer of his writing with slight reservations for the last two novels. He was a celebrated video games journalist and magazine editor before he switched to novel authoring and the father of one daughter has written several crime thriller novels which have been read far and wide. Author Tim Weaver is one of my favourite authors and I love the ‘David Raker’ series so have been looking forward to this one for some time.

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However, he has never let go of anyone, and he is to acquire 2 further strange missing person cases. The problem is that the island is closed for the winter and has no way to contact the mainland so she does what she can to survive over 5 months. Something bad has happened to Rebekah - she appears to be alone on an abandoned island after being attacked. Missing Pieces was a little on the slow side to start – however, once things started to move, I could not get enough.or there is no other transport to get from the island to home, or they will have to stay overnight until the last ferry for the winter arrives the next morning. Even if Rebekah can manage to survive the winter, in the spring, when the ferries resume, two men will arrive to kill her, although she has no idea why.