NIGHTFALL (The 1st Jack Nightingale Supernatural Thriller)

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The Last Goodbye– 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. 40 years ago… When Rebekah Murphy was three, her mother walked out of their childhood home and never returned. Nearly four decades on, Fiona Murphy is still missing. But then, out of the blue, a letter arrives in the post. It says it’s from Fiona. 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. Kerridge, Jake (6 August 2012). "A crime author, at the festival, with a kindle". The Telegraph. London . Retrieved 3 November 2013.

Skidelsky, William (27 February 2011). "Kindle gives thriller writer a plot for success – at 71p a shot". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 1 May 2013. Each book in the David Raker series is offering a standalone story, but the lives of the different characters evolve from one book to the other. Flood, Alison. "Stephen Leather accused of cyberbullying by fellow thriller writers". The Guardian . Retrieved 13 January 2016. You Were Gone– Three days after Christmas, a woman walks into a police station. She has no phone and no ID, just a piece of paper with the name of David Raker on it. She tells officers that Raker is her husband. When he turns up at the station, the woman looks exactly like his wife. She knows all about their marriage, their history, and even private conversations the two of them had. There’s just one problem: Raker’s wife has been dead for eight years. There were additional issues with the book; the author had problems keeping the timeline straight, he placed the 10th of the month as the Friday between the 13th and 27th.

What Remains– Colm Healy used to be one of the Met’s best detectives. Haunted by the unsolved murders of a mother and her twin daughters, his life was left in ruins. David Raker is the only friend Healy has left. The only one who understands that redemption rests on solving these murders. Their search will unravel a thread of tragedy spanning years, and will force them to sacrifice everything they have left…

While reading the sample, I thought that this is my kind of book. It had a dark, twisted, jaded protagonist with some great sarcastic humor. I immediately bought the book. It took some time, but I finally got around to reading it. The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2002". Crime Writer's Association. Archived from the original on 28 June 2012 . Retrieved 13 August 2012.Nightshade– A farmer walks into a school and shoots eight children dead before turning the gun on himself. It’s a harrowing but straightforward case – until police search the man’s farm and unearth evidence of dark Satanic practices. When the perpetrator’s brother approaches Nightingale, adamant that his brother was set up, it’s clear that something even more sinister lurks at the heart of the case.