Questa volta Reaker deve vedersela con un caso del tutto inaspettato, la scomparsa del padre di Melanie Crow, una vicenda che riserverà peraltro molte sorprese.
Il libro è molto bello e intrigante e, come già avvenuto precedentemente, la storia non trova interamente soluzione fino all’ultima riga. Da parte sua Reaker acquista sempre maggior spessore, profondità ed umanità ad ogni nuovo libro e anche il rapporto con la figlia concorre a questo accrescimento.
Una serie che mi appassiona sempre più.
Un consiglio a chi vorrà leggere questi libri: seguite l’ordine di pubblicazione della serie perché anche se ogni storia è conclusiva e a sé stante, alcuni rimandi e le evoluzioni dei personaggi ricorrenti seguono una logica temporale e, a volte, sono complementari alle storie stesse. ( )

DCI Melanie Craw has had angry words and disagreements with David Raker in the past... but now she turns to him as her last, and perhaps only, hope of finding her father. Having no official assistance from Craw or any of the local authorities....none of the usual resources available when working a case...and no access to official records...he finds himself having to search all of cases Franks worked for the Met’s Homicide and Serious Crime unit. What he finds frightens even this harden investigator. We follow David as he finds himself entangled in one strange situation after another. It's a fairly long book but the reading is easy and you just have to go with David to the end. ( )

Wonderful read. Tim Weaver certainly hits his stride with #5 in the David Raker series. The off-putting violence of the early novels is gone leaving complex plotting with surprising twists. It starts off a bit slow, but gathers speed to be quite entertaining. I could do without the "unreliable narrator" device, but it wasn't overused. I don't understand why this series hasn't been more readily available in US. ( )

A brilliant story which has you guessing until the final pages and certainly I didn't work out any of the plot twists, very inventive and keeps you turning the pages to find out what happens next. David Raker is hired by a policewoman to find her missing father, a retired senior Met policeman, who disappeared from his retirement home on Dartmoor. Highly recommended. ( )

Mi piacciono molto i libri di Weaver. Sono storie thriller veramente ben scritte e costruite. ( )