Tim Weaver (author)
| Tim Weaver | |
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| Born | 1977 Bath, England |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | English |
| Genre | Crime |
| Notable works | David Raker series |
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Tim Weaver (born 1977) is an English writer primarily known for his crime thrillers featuring missing persons investigator David Raker.
Prior to publication of his first book, Weaver was a videogames journalist. He was editor of cult gaming title, N64 Magazine and spent six years as Editor of Xbox World, leaving the magazine in 2011. More recently, he has appeared as co-host of YouTube show GTA V O'Clock. In his wider career as a journalist, he has written about the long struggle he and his wife had to start a family.
Weaver's debut crime thriller Chasing the Dead – which took ten years to get published – was released in February 2010 and introduced the character of David Raker. Raker is a former journalist, who gave up his career in newspapers to care for his wife after she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. The book begins twelve months after her death, and centres on the mysterious reappearance of a man thought to have died in a car crash.The Guardian called it "an impressive debut", though questioned the characterisation of Raker. On a BBC Radio Somerset interview, when asked about Raker's background, Weaver described how he drew on his own traumatic battle to have a child.
His follow-up The Dead Tracks – which went to number one on the Amazon Kindle charts in March 2013 – was reviewed favourably by thriller author Luca Veste. It concerned the hunt for a serial killer.
The third novel in the series, Vanished, saw Raker looking into the case of a man disappearing on a London Underground train. The Guardian claimed Weaver's books were getting "better each time – tense, complex, sometimes horrific, written with flair as well as care.".
His fourth book, Never Coming Back, is the first in the series to move entirely away from London, and is set in Devon and Las Vegas. On 28 August 2013 it was announced that Never Coming Back had been selected for the Richard and Judy Autumn 2013 Book Club. On 18 November 2013, it was shortlisted for Crime & Thriller of the Year in the Specsavers National Book Awards, and on 16 December 2013 iTunes included it in their 'Best of 2013' list, naming it Best British Crime Thriller.
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