Really enjoyed this - will definitely be recommending and looking forward to the next one by this author!

This got me involved and I quite liked trying to work out how everything was interconnected. I just wanted to find out the ending. This was my first read by this author.

I was given a free copy by netgalley and the publishers but the review is entirely my own.

A story with many twists and turns, both trauma and tragedy yet also filled with lots of thoughtful, tender hearted and transformative moments. I would highly recommend this book. I really enjoy the split perspective/split timeline way in which the story has been told. It kept me guessing and it kept me intrigued the whole way through. There are a few plot points / character stories that i would have preferred to have had more information/resolution for, hence the 4 star rating. As otherwise it is truly fantastic!

I must confess to having a few of Tim Weaver’s David Raker books in my tbr, but as of yet, they haven’t quite made it to the top. Having read Missing Pieces, I know I need to move them to the top of the pile.

At the start, we meet Rebekah and Johnny, a sister and brother who have relatively recently lost both their brother and father, their mother has been absent for many years. Johnny is an aspiring author, working in a job that doesn’t fulfil him. Bek is an orthopaedic surgeon, mum to two young daughters, married, but not too happily.
Our thriller starts when Bek and Johnny take a trip to Crow Island. 100 miles from the mainland coast, only accessible by ferry; inhabited for half the year, due to it’s inhospitable weather and location. They were hoping for a relaxing day away from their daily lives, but things quickly go very wrong, with Bek being catapulted into an impossibly bleak situation.

The chapters switching narrators between Rebekah and Frank, stretches the cliff-hanging tension, felt at the end of a chapter. The well written story twists and turns, leaving me wondering what would happen next, while trying to work out who was responsible. I thought I had it sussed, but I was wrong. The puzzle kept me guessing until the end, the individual strands of the story slowly coming together, forming the intricate fully formed motive, and surprise conclusion. I would love for there to be a cross-over book, featuring David Raker, after his small cameo in Missing Pieces.
A highly recommended 4⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ thriller.

In the past I’ve really enjoyed The David Raker series, and initially thought this was another part of the series. However, this is a standalone detective story and I really liked it and hope there are more standalone stories to come.

I like Tim Weaver’s books and think his writing is very clever. Good thrillers, guaranteed to keep you interested. Liked this one and looking forward to reading more from Weaver in the future.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read an advance copy of this book.
This is a stand alone book from Tim Weaver, full of twists and turns that kept me hooked.
I look forward to reading more by him.

A fantastic standalone from Tim Weaver, like a good wine he just gets better and better. Tim is without question one of my favourite authors and in David Raker he has provided readers with an incredible protagonist.

Set on Cow Island, ravaged by a hurricane, Rebekah Murphy is a fantastic lead in this adventure.

I've read all of the David Raker books to date and loved them all. I found that although I didn't enjoy this story as much, it kept my interest with twists that I wasn't expecting. All in all I would recommend this book.

This was a story which started well but didn't seem to go anywhere. The conclusion was a real disappointment. Not up to Tim weavers usual standard.

This excellent stand alone novel has tales of intrigue, abandonment and redemption as a girl looks to survive on an island a hundred miles away from civilisation. Tim Weavers books never fail to leave the reader amazed at where the plot lines come from. Thoroughly recommended.

So going book. To far fetched at times and a weak plot. Unfortunately not a book for me.
Many thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to see an arc.

Rebekah is marooned on a deserted (for the winter) island about 100 miles off the U.S. coast. And if that isn’t dangerous enough…….. Well just like all of Tim’s previous books it all started with great excitement that immediately draws the reader in, but it then gets a bit bogged down especially with the introduction of a new character, Travis. Not to mention every single thing Rebekah gets up to on this island. The book goes backwards and forwards, different points of view. The explanations as to “why” seemed over the top and rather unbelievable to me - to go to so much trouble and for what?! The ending was disappointing and was rushed. Might have worked better by shortening the book. It was confusing on a kindle as times/dates etc ran into each other with no proper breaks. It was still a good, enjoyable yarn though for fans of this author

Missing Pieces is a great standalone from the pen of Tim Weaver. Set mainly on a deserted island but with flashbacks to the stranded Be Murphy's previous life and narratives from police detectives investigating a separate incident regarding the disappearance of a missing artist and the also from the bad guys, this is a wonderful mystery which gripped me from start to finish.

The slow drip drip of information combined with the claustrophobia of Bec's island existence and her count down to the day when she might be rescued is compelling. Bec herself is a great unreliable narrator as 'cabin fever' warps her thought processes and has her veering from supposition to supposition. leaving the reader unsettled and unsure what to believe.

It's one of those books that leaves you wondering what you would do if you were in Bec's shoes and trapped for six months in complete solitude in an inhospitable environment.
The pace was perfect. Regular departures to either the detectives or the criminals narratives was a welcome reprieve from the desperation of Bec's situation and was a great tool to juxtapose the three very different experiences.
I thoroughly enjoyed this.

I haven't read much by Tim before, but when I started this one, I again realized I'm missing out on a very good author! The book was very well written, and I can't wait to read the next book by this author. Recommended.

An intriguing story, took a while to get into as so many lose connections, not one of the authors best books

I appreciated the ARC copy and enjoyed an emotional and compulsive thriller with a fascinating and original plot.

The tension builds as the book progresses, and it centres on a brilliant heroine.

I found the story suspenseful and at times chilling but all the while gripping.

This was intense! I was just so compelled to read it. The storyline had me drawn in from the beginning. The twist and turns had me guessing all the time.
Just when you think you have it another twist comes.
Such a great read and fab characters.

Rebekah Is a woman seperated from her husband who decides,on a whim, to accompany her brother on a trip to Crow Island 101 miles off the coast of Long Island. her borther Johnny is somehow implicated in the disappearance of Louise, a disappearance that Travis a soon to be retired cop is trying to solve.

On Crow Island Johnny is killed, Rebekah is believed dead and the perpetrators know they may have left some evidence behind. Explaining the narrative anymore would only give me a headache so I have decided not to bother.

The author evolves the story line in a then and now narrative. the "Then" can be as much as weeks or even months ago equally it could be 60 minutes ago. It is a real mess to follow not least because in this ARC there is no paragraphing between then and now - let alone chapter demarcation.

The need to suspend my disbelief was raised early
1. Nobody reported Rebekah or Johnny missing - mother best friend, her husband other more remotely connected friends
2. the attempts to catch Rebekah were more Keystone cops than acceptable chases
3. Rebekah manages to feed herself for 6 months on a few tins and at the same time Run to build up muscle mass and strength and feed a dog.
3. The cop investigating Louise's disappearance worked out that Johnny and Rebekah never left the island but decided not to tell anyone
4. The perpetrators were (view spoiler)

I could go on this book would have been better as 200 page book with less fluff to bulk it out, it was totally unbelievable and it will not be an author i follow, It feels like tha author gave no thought to the brain power of his reader or their ability to see the kinks in the storyline. It was dreadfully disappointing.

I find GR ratings so arbitrary but cannot give it more than a 1 star rating

An atmospheric and twisty mystery thriller that would benefit from a bit of condensing

Rebekah Murphy, a separated mother of two, agrees to visit a remote uninhabited island with her brother, aspiring writer Johnny, who is researching for a new book. However, when the two arrive, they find themselves targeted by killers for reasons unknown, and Rebekah wakes up and discovers she is trapped on the island for the winter with Johnny nowhere to be found. As she fights for survival, she also struggles to identify what exactly it is that led to her, and her brother being targeted. Meanwhile, back home in New York City, Detective Frank Travis is approaching his retirement and desperately searching for a missing girl. He knows that her case will likely be abandoned once he leaves the force, but what he doesn’t know is that her disappearance is linked to Rebekah, and only with her help might he be able to crack the mystery.

This was overall a very well-written and enjoyable crime mystery thriller story, with a multi-layered protagonist, a complex and twist-packed plot and plenty of red herrings and false leads sprinkled in to keep the reader guessing. The opening was very gripping, and the initial parts of the book where Rebekah was trapped on the island were packed with non-stop tension and a permeating atmosphere of fear and despair. Crow Island itself was almost like a character in the story – dark, harsh, and foreboding – and you really felt Rebekah’s claustrophobia and panic as she struggles for her survival, all whilst desperately missing her young daughters and trying to figure out why sinister men are hunting her. I liked the character of Frank Travis, a detective approaching retirement who just wants to solve his last case for the sake of the missing girl and her family, and his sections of the book almost felt like a separate crime story at first. The author then craftily joins together the two plots, and the links all become clear in the final few chapters, where surprising secrets are revealed.

Unfortunately, despite having all the ingredients for a great crime thriller, I didn’t find myself enjoying this story as much as I thought I would. I didn’t really engage with Rebekah and found her intense love for her daughters and her almost panicked fear of being separated from them didn’t really gel with her career as a supposed successful trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, who would have spent long periods of time without seeing her kids. Whilst they were initially very tense and readable, I also found some scenes of her struggling to survive on the island were a bit repetitive and some action scenes included too much detail which made them feel drawn out and left me struggling to keep my focus, losing some of their tension as a result. I felt that there was a lot of background information included which didn’t end up really contributing to the overall story, which further added to the lengthy feel of some sections, and some red herrings felt like they were inserted just for the sake of it and were never really explained. Finally, the last quarter of the book really did drag a bit and needed tightening up to avoid squandering the build-up of tension that had developed throughout the preceding story.

In conclusion, I did enjoy reading this book, and it is a solid crime thriller, but feel that it needed editing and shortening to maintain its high tension and the excellent fearful atmosphere it initially generates. I certainly would read more by this author but would probably pick something a little shorter.

Daenerys

Elite Reviewing Group received a copy of this book to review.