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2000s: An entire village disappears overnight….
No One Home
What you need to know before your trail
On Halloween night, the residents of Black Gale gather for a dinner party. As the only nine people living there, they’ve become close friends as well as neighbours.
They eat, drink and laugh. They play games and take photographs. Except those photographs will be the last record of any of them.
By the next morning, the whole village has vanished.
With no bodies, no evidence and no clues, the mystery of what happened at Black Gale remains unsolved two and a half years on. But then the families of the missing turn to investigator David Raker – and their obsession becomes his.
What secrets were the neighbours keeping from their families – and from each other?
Were they really everything they seemed to be?
And is Raker looking for nine missing people – or nine dead bodies?
Locations
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Travel BookTrail style to Black Gale in Yorkshire and Los Angeles!
Black Gale
Fictional luckily. And when you’ve been there, you’ll be pleased it is. Imagine how a small village can just disappear?
“The sign said : Welcome to Black Gale:
It was weather-beaten, rinsed pale over the time that it had stood guard at the gated entrance to the village…”
In whatever direction you looked, hills rolled into the distance and the dark spring sky seemed to go on for ever.”
Los Angeles
The city of angels has lost its heavenly glow here and is instead more of a hellish place for police investigations. There’s a case here that is scarily reminiscent of the nightstalker case which happened in 1984-1985
Booktrailer Review
David Raker is a missing person investigator. What a case he is faced with here! A village consisting of 9 people disappeared two years ago and the police have never found out what happened. There was no evidence of foul play; in fact it looked as if they had just walked out of their homes and vanished.
David comes to investigate and BOOM that’s the top of the roller coaster as the rest of this book is one stomach churning, shocking reveal after another. There’s twists and turns, unexpected changes of directions and then just when you are least expecting it – another climb and plummet off another cliff hanger.
At the same time, we flick back to 1985 and meet Jo who is working for the
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department at a time when the city of LA is being terrorised by a particularly brutal and depraved serial killer dubbed The Night Stalker. What connections could there be between this storyline and David’s?David’s stoyline especially is one of the most compelling I’ve read in a long while. He’s trying to keep his friend safe despite this affecting his own life. He makes finding these missing people a personal challenge. He’s threatened and told to stop nosing around but that just fuels his fire.
There’s so much meat on this novel and it takes some chewing over but when you’ve digested it, you will be full and satisfied. This must have taken some plotting, some planning and given the author some headaches. But it’s fast and furious reading and you should read it and not expect to finish until you do.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: No One Home
Destination: “Black Gale” Yorkshire, Los Angeles Author/guide: Tim Weaver Departure Time: 1980s, 2000s
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