THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 3 BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY PICKDAVID RAKER IS BACK WITH ANOTHER HEART-POUNDING MISSING PERSONS CASE’Tim Weaver is the master of clever, unpredictable plots’ CLAIRE DOUGLAS’If you haven’t yet met Raker, you’re in for a treat’ MICK HERRON’A fine addition to an excellent series’ OBSERVER’Brilliant . . . A jaw-dropping number of twists and turns. Truly excellent’ B.A. PARIS______CCTV footage captures Cate and Aiden Gascoigne driving home seconds before their car plunges into a ravine and explodes. When fire crews arrive, the vehicle is empty. Cate and Aiden have vanished. Missing persons investigator David Raker has solved too many impossible cases. He knows that behind every disappearance lies a dark tale waiting to be uncovered. What he doesn’t know is how dark this one is – or how close it will get to him . . . ______’Shocking, gripping, heart-pounding, The Blackbird is unputdownable . . . Bloody brilliant’ NIKKI MAY