For all fans of Mo Hayder's Gone and Michael Marshall Smith's The Straw Men, Vanished is the brilliant new missing persons case in the David Raker series, which establishes Tim Weaver as one of Britain's most talented new psychological suspense writers. No life is perfect. Everyone has secrets.

For millions of Londoners, the morning of 17 December is just like any other. But not for Sam Wren. An hour after leaving home, he gets onto a tube train - and never gets off again. No eyewitnesses. No trace of him on security cameras. Six months later, he's still missing. Out of options and desperate for answers, Sam's wife Julia hires David Raker to track him down. Raker has made a career out of finding the lost. He knows how they think. And, in missing person cases, the only certainty is that everyone has something to hide.

But in this case the secrets go deeper than anyone imagined. For, as Raker starts to suspect that even the police are lying to him, someone is watching. Someone who knows what happened on the tube that day. And, with Raker in his sights, he'll do anything to keep Sam's secrets to himself... Vanished marks the return of an amazing new thriller talent - Tim Weaver is all set to become a household name in the world of suspense fiction.