An Interview with Tim Weaver

Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2024, Tim Weaver, joins Harrogate International Festivals and host Joe Haddow, to talk about his book, The Last Goodbye. 

Two disappearances. Two families. One secret. Missing persons investigator David Raker returns to crack a cold case wide open.

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.

Somewhere inside the ride, impossible as it seems, the two of them simply vanish.

Forty years ago.

When Rebekah Murphy was three, her mother walked out of their childhood home and never returned.

A little more about the author…

Tim Weaver is a British crime novelist, best known for his thrillers featuring the missing persons investigator David Raker. Before the publication of his first novel Chasing the Dead in 2010, Weaver worked as a videogames journalist, also writing about films, sports and technology. He has published a further ten books in the David Raker series, as well as a short story collection Disconnection in 2013.