Chasing the Dead: 1 (David Raker Mystery)

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And yet, after a while, when the money really started coming in, Derryn persuaded me to rent some office space down the road from our home, in an effort to get me out, but also - more than that, I think - to convince me I could make a career out of what I was doing. Anyone paying a minute amount of attention can tell within the first few chapters that this will be a supernatural horror. But he doesn’t want her money, only her suffering–and he will kill Veda if Sue doesn’t follow his every command. It’s not the kind of gratuitous “serial killer porn” violence that has stopped me reading Val McDermid, but it is very unpleasant. Set over the course of a single night, Chasing the Dead is a fast-paced, ferociously tense supernatural thriller.

You see the events that lead him to do what he does, you see the way he reacts to death and loss – his own and others’ – and you see him grow into a different person than he once was. The change is wonderfully done, finally giving you a protagonist who is entirely human, and yet, heroic in his own way. Si tu cuenta está en pausa dejarás de tener acceso a los títulos del catálogo ilimitado que estuvieses escuchando hasta que reanudes tu suscripción, pero podrás seguir escuchando los audiolibros que hayas comprado individualmente. And should you choose to go along for the ride, and I hope you do, you may have the crap scared out of you. It started off by giving a little background of the natator by telling what she does for a living and you learn a lot about the internal feelings of the narrator as the story continues.The narration was however first class hence the 2 stars I have given in sympathy for them in trying to breed life into the most ridiculous story. Lines like " she had lived with this man for 23 years, but had not known him at all" , and the " He had listened to the TV on mute? His novels are Broken Heart, What Remains, Fall From Grace, Never Coming Back, Vanished, The Dead Tracks, and Chasing the Dead. Alex’s life begins to unfold in front of Raker and the missing persons’ investigator finds dangerous secrets in the apparently innocent life of Alex Towne – secrets that a group of killers have guarded dearly, and that they continue to guard, even at the cost of Raker’s life. Overall, I don't regret reading Chasing the Dead, but it's not something I'd go out of my way to recommend or read again, either.

Even the identity of the culprit at the head of the book’s conspiracy – blatantly foreshadowed – is silly. Mary Towne contacts missing persons investigator David Raker claiming to have seen her dead son Alex. I'd always liked the investigative parts of journalism, the dirty work, the digging, more than I had liked the writing. You get to see a lot of his background in the second story, but this one put things into a whole new, complete, perspective for me.Suffice to say there is a fanatical religious undertone to the proceedings and in the final pages a somewhat miraculous discovery about Alex Towne's family which I found somewhat unbelievable. Good story but over emphasised at times, obviously to increase the dramatic effect but was over cooked for me at times. Without Warning finds Pullman Snr serving a life sentence for murder and the adult Joe apparently a pillar of the community: married and a successful undertaker.