The Last Goodbye

By Tim Weaver

What it’s about?

ONE DAY AGO.
On the night Tom Brenner and his nine-year-old son Leo visit the Seven Peaks theme park, they head straight for the ghost house. They go in. But they don’t come out.


FORTY YEARS AGO.
When Rebekah Murphy was three, her mother walked out and never returned. Nearly four decades on, Fiona Murphy is still missing. Until a letter arrives in the post, claiming to be from Fiona.

NOW.
Missing persons investigator David Raker is hired by Rebekah to find out if the letter is actually from her mother – and soon makes a connection to the Brenners.

But these are mysteries whose secrets were never meant to be found.

And with his closest ally under arrest and about to reveal some truths of his own, the danger to Raker is coming from all sides . . .

What I think:

This is a complex book that deserves your full attention. There are lots of characters and lots going on that gradually weave together.

This is the twelfth book in the David Raker series. It is a standalone, but it does follow up on some of the events in book 11, and Rebekah Murphy has featured in a previous story. While I haven’t read that book, everything you need to pick up the story is there. It will definitely make you want to go back and read the rest of the series.

The narrative jumps around between the past and the present. At first, it is hard to see how all the elements of the story are going to come together. It’s very twisty and clever and will definitely keep you reading until the very end. This is a long read but pacy and compelling.

I definitely want to read more of this series as the writing is fantastic.

Thank you to Netgalley for my gifted digital copy of The Last Goodbye.