This novel is the 10th in the David Raker series and multiple timelines have been woken together which did add depth to the narrative, by offering glimpses into the past whilst maintaining a sense of urgency in the present. However, I am not sure it works as well as it might have been intended without knowledge of David's past from previous books in the series. As David delved deeper into the mystery of the Black Gale disappearances, his personal journey became intertwined with the fate of the missing villagers, which I did feel added emotional weight.

Overall, I found this a difficult read as it is quite gloomy at times and the pace is (necessarily) slow. In the end though the slog was worth it because all the threads of the plot are woven in with no loose ends remaining.

I could not get into this book, ultimately it was not form me and I could not finish it. It may be one for other readers

I love love love the character of David Raker, and this title was a mysterious and creepy read, which made the most of the character!

No One Home by Tim Weaver is the 10th in the very successful David Raker series.

On Halloween night, four households gather for a party in the tiny Yorkshire village of Black Gale. Three hours in, they head outside, onto the darkened moors, to play a drunken game of hide and seek. None of them return. There's no trail, no evidence and no answers. An entire village has just vanished.

With the police investigation dead in the water, the families of the disappeared ask missing persons investigator David Raker to find out what happened. But nothing can prepare him for the truth

I think that the students in our school library need to hear lots of diverse voices and read stories and lives of many different kinds of people and experiences. When I inherited the library it was an incredibly sanitised space with only 'school readers' and project books on 'the railways' etc. Buying in books that will appeal to the whole range of our readers with diverse voices, eclectic and fascinating subject matter, and topics that will intrigue and fascinate them was incredibly important to me.
This is a book that I think our senior readers will enjoy very much indeed - not just because it's well written with an arresting voice that will really keep them reading and about a fascinating topic - but it's also a book that doesn't feel worthy or improving, it doesn't scream 'school library and treats them like young reading adults who have the right to explore a range of modern diverse reads that will grip and intrigue them and ensure that reading isn't something that they are just forced to do for their English project - this was a solid ten out of ten for me and I'm hoping that our students are as gripped and caught up in it as I was. It was one that I stayed up far too late reading and one that I'll be recommending to the staff as well as our senior students - thank you so much for the chance to read and review; I really loved it and can't wait to discuss it with some of our seniors once they've read it too!

Normally I love meeting up with friends and having a good time together. But however with these friends that's not a good idea... Nine friends meet up at a party but the next day they are all gone. No trace ever to be found.... This was a gripping read and I couldn't wait to see what happened to the missing people! Recommended.

Received from Michael Joseph and Netgalley for honest read and review.
Did not know this was part of a 10 book series so far.
I don't think you have to read in order,but I will definitely go and get the rest.
Main character was well written and thoroughly enjoyable read.

No One Home is the 10th book in the David Raker series. Which I listened to on audio with two narrators Joe Coen and Lorelei King. I loved the fact that this story had both male and female narrators. Makes the story feel even more real.

The blurb totally sold it to me and I couldn't wait to catch up with Raker. I have to admit that I have missed a few books out of this series. But it never spoiled my enjoyment of this story. It can easily be read as a standalone. The author gives enough information about the Raker so you don't feel like you have missed out. Just makes me want to go back and read the missing ones.

I really enjoyed this audio, I left like I was watching it on TV. The plot is fast paced and addictive. This is a story that is full of twists and turns as we follow Raker on a case when a whole village is missing! How is that even possible...read this book and you will find out!

We follow two different timelines as we piece the mystery together. No one Home is a gripping excellent read which will keep you hooked until the very end.

I love Raker and I love the fact that he specialises in missing people making his character unique.

If you're looking for a series to binge on then highly recommend this one

I have read lots of books by Tim Weaver and I have started to get a bored with reading the same background stuff that is in all,of his books although do understand it is good for people that have not read his books before. I thoroughly enjoyed this book apart from the regurgitation of previous books.

#10 in the David Raker series. It can be read as a stand-alone. I hadn’t read any of the previous novels in this series and that’s something I am now going to rectify.

No One Home is a crime thriller. David Raker is an investigator who specialises in missing person cases. He is approached by some of the relatives of nine people who had gone missing from the same village a couple of years previously. All nine just disappeared one night.

There is also a second story run set 30 years ago, in the US, Jo is a member of the LA Sheriff's Department and in hunting a murderer…...gradually it becomes clear these cases are connected.

This is so well written with a superbly twisty plot and a great, likeable main character. With an ending that will leave you gasping this is a compelling and utterly engrossing read.

Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for an eARC of No One Home.

Why have I not read any other books by Tim Weaver? If his previous books are only half as good, I’ve been missing out for some time.
No One Home is an A* crime novel. Gritty, fast paced, awesome plot and with real but flawed characters. There’s nothing complicated about it, it’s just a really well written book that I couldn’t put down and kept mulling over when I wasn’t reading it.

The 9 residents of the village of Black Gale gather for a dinner party. The take photos and eat, drink and laugh together. The next morning they have all disappeared.
Two and a half years later the families of the missing turn to investigator David Raker for help. But what is the link to an old American cold case and a missing student? More twists and secrets are revealed as Raker starts investigating and digging around.

The dual timelines add to the mystery and will only leave you more engrossed in this superb story.

I’m now about to go back and read all the previous David Raker books as this was a cracker of a book, and judging from reviews, the entire back series is just as brilliant.

With many thanks to NetGalley and Penguin UK - Michael Joseph for the opportunity to read this ARC, in return for an honest and unbiased review.

This was the first book I've read by Tim Weaver, and it's fairly far in to his series about lead character David Raker, an investigator of missing-persons cases. As such there are several moments in the story that referr to previous events in the character's life, which jarred me a little as I didn't know what (or who) they were referring to, but I still think the story is readable on its own to anyone who isn't familiar with the Raker series.

Focusing on the disappearance of a whole group of neighbours on one night, who vanished without any trace, this is an intriguing mystery with very little in the way of predictability. The case is set up with a lot of suspense and mystery (exactly how DID they all disappear into thin air, and why are there no clues?) and the writing is evenly paced as Raker sets about finding what exactly did happen to the residents of Black Gale.

I did enjoy this book but I felt a bit let down by the ending. It all made sense to me, but I just found that the solution and the tie-up to everything wasn't the ending I would have liked. Because of that, it felt to me like the steam went out of the story a bit, which was a shame as it had been quite a page-turner up until the final few chapters. I also noticed that there was a side plot with a secondary character that didn't really seem to get tied up at all, really - but I suppose that may be intentional and aimed more at series readers. However, from the point of view of a one-off reader, it felt a bit like that part had just been left drifting in the wind.

I probably would read more of Tim Weaver's books, but I think I would rather go back to the beginning of the Raker series and acclimate myself to the character and the establishment of the series first.

Bizarre and clever twisting story!

The missing person investigator, David Raker searched for nine people who were missing from the village, Black Gale. All of them were those residents disappeared and the village was the eerily ghost town.

In 1985, Joline Kader was the detective in the Sheriff’s Homicide. She was assigned to the ‘Night Stalker’ case at the motel in Hollywood, Los Angeles. A corpse was found in the tub filled with acid. She searched for the killer for many years until she found a link to the missing nine people in the UK.

Raker discovered more secrets coming from the village as he checked the names of some people, who were not missing, did not match with many reports from other people who knew them. He was led to a place which was like Pandora’s box revealing the secrets about how the people were missing from the village.

I was stunned at the end of the brilliant novel! That was a thrilling rollercoaster story!

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I’ve never read anything by this author before but really glad I found this. It’s the tenth one. I’m going to the library to order the other nine as soon as they open up again!
A whole village goes missing and the main character who is in the other 9 books looks for missing people. Really enjoyed this. 4/5 on goodreads.

David Raker number 10 is a welcome if little over long addition to this series. As usual it is a thrilling mystery that works well as part of a series or a standalone. The only issue for me is that at over 500 pages the story sometimes felt a little stretched. However even saying this its still a great read.

How can 9 people just vanish from a dinner party? Well they do! This so apparently the second in the series but I have t read the first one so it can be a stand alone novel, I’m off to find the first one now! Great book with decent characters and a few twists and turns too, really liked the lead detective and hope to read more from the author.

Big fan of Tim's writing. Great story that draws you right in. David Raker is a fab character and as ever, loved spending time in his head. I came to this series late but will absolutely go back and work my way through the back catalogue!

The premise of this book was so exciting: all of the residents of a village called Black Gale have gone missing following a party. There’s not a hint of what happened to them following the evening so a specialist investigator in Missing Persons (Raker) comes to see if he can find out what happened to the residents.

If the story had stuck with the missing persons investigation, I would have been happy but it became convoluted with an investigation run years prior in America that eventually gets tied into the current-day UK investigation. There’s also material thrown in (to my mind, unnecessarily) from previous books in the series about Raker’s relationship with Colm Healy and a prior investigation that ruined Healy’s life. I couldn’t really grasp why it was relevant here and it didn’t move the plot forward.

The book is largely well-written, until some clunky dialogue with the perpetrator near the finish.

Other reviewers have clearly loved and it’s not at all bad - it just isn’t high on my list of must-read recommendations.

Many thanks to NetGalley, Michael Joseph publishing and the author for a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

A great premise for a novel, which didn’t disappoint. Intriguing, well-written and full of twist and turns. I will search out the earlier novels by this author.

I very much enjoyed this book, the first I’ve read by Tim Weaver.

When I first requested it I didn’t realise it was part of a series (David Raker no 10 in the series) but it didn’t hamper my enjoyment in any way and although there was obviously a back story between David Raker and some of the other characters, I didn’t feel I was missing anything by having not read the earlier books first.

I was intrigued by the plot which saw 9 neighbours from a village hamlet all go missing without trace one Halloween evening. The story follows Raker’s investigations of what has happened to them and he discovers links to the US and cases being investigated there.

It felt like quite a long book but it engaged my attention throughout and was a satisfying crime read. I’ll happily read more from Tim Weaver.

Thank you to net galley and the publisher for providing an advance copy in exchange for my honest opinion. I’ve also shared this review on Goodreads.