The Blackbird: The heart-pounding Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy book club pick (David Raker Missing Persons, 11)

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As if that is not enough, iTunes also mentioned the book in a special way, including it in the Best of 2013 list.

In Vanished, a man disappears while on a London underground train while in the Fall from Grace, a missing former metropolitan police officer is being looked for. However, Tim Weaver’s Never Coming Back seems to be loved by many people, if its selection for the Richard and Judy Book club is anything to go by. Indeed, the popularity of David Raker missing persons series has already earned Tim Weaver a place in the top novel authorship scene. To read more about the site or if you want a graphic to link to us, see the about page for more details. Incredibly well-paced, with menacing, clever twists - Raker is back in this stunning read from one of the masters of the genre.

The Blackbird is one of those precious books that grabs the attention from the off and never, ever lets go.

Taken on by Cate’s grieving family, these are two questions that Raker is determined to answer, but as his investigation progresses, more and more questions are about to cloud the issue further.We think All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby is going to storm up the bestseller lists in both the UK and the US, and everywhere else too. One minute Cate and Aiden Gascoigne are captured on CCTV on Gatton Hill in Surrey, laughing and without a care in the world. 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 .

Australian author Sulari Gentill offers up a tempting slice of twisty literary crime when The Woman in the Library comes out on 1 June. On the night before the funeral he restlessly roams the rooms of the family home – but instead of uncovering happy memories he finds a gun, a love letter and a Polaroid photograph of a man lying in his own blood. With the David Raker novels, Tim Weaver has carved out an area of British crime fiction uniquely his own.

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. Meanwhile, over in the wilds of Wales, Raker’s fugitive friend Colm Healy has problems of his own – someone is taking an interest in him, and that’s a big no-no for n ex-cop who must live his life under the radar.