Missing

by Tim Weaver

MISSING is a podcast, hosted by bestselling crime writer Tim Weaver. Over the course of an entire season, the show investigated the world of missing people - who disappears, why they disappear, the pressures of life on the run, and who tracks them down - and charts the progression of a missing persons search.

Through these transcripts, join the investigation as Tim meets with leading experts from the worlds of investigation, surveillance, data, forensics, psychology, and technology. In each interview he challenges them - and himself - with the ultimate question: is it really possible to disappear?

Also include a chapter from How to Disappear, by Frank M Ahearn

Genres: True Crime

ebook

Published August 11, 2016

About the author

Tim Weaver is the Sunday Times Top 3 bestselling author of the David Raker missing persons series, the standalone thriller, Missing Pieces, and the novella collection, The Shadow at the Door. His novels have been selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club four times, and his work has been nominated for a National Book Award and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. He is currently developing an original TV drama with the team behind Line of Duty. He lives near Bath in the UK. Find out more about Tim and his writing at www.timweaverbooks.com.

Reviews

[Siobhan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ve been meaning to listen to the Missing podcasts for quite some time. However, despite my interest, I’m not really one for listening to such things. Even when they’re on topics I find interesting, my attention wavers. Thus, you can imagine how happy I was when I found the transcripts for free on Amazon. My interest was well and truly piqued: I needed to read it, and I need to do so instantly.

As soon as I started reading, I was a goner.

From the very start, I was interested in the topic. Often true crime focuses upon the criminal statistics that are a lot rarer, allowing us to know all we need to know about serial killers. Missing, however, deals with something that is a lot more common: mispers.

It gives us details into the statistics of missing people: how many go missing in the UK a year, how quickly people are found, how many are never found. It gives us information on why people go missing. Information regarding the lives of people once they are missing: how they avoid detection, how people go about searching for them.

For such a short read, it gives a lot of information.

Honestly, my mind was filled with so much information. Useful information, not just in terms of the missing but also in relation to everyday life. It gives information into surveillance, technology, data, and many other aspects of life. In getting you to stop and think about what it would be like to disappear, of the difficulties of being part of the one percent that are not tracked down, the information also gets you to stop and think about everyday life.

Honestly, it was brilliant read – it really got me thinking.

[Gary · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am currently reading the missing persons investigator David Raker series by author Tim Weaver, so decided to read this transcript from the eight podcasts that he did on the subject.
It was interesting to read some of the statistics on missing people and some of the circumstances surrounding the subject.

Very interesting in places but I felt it was a little repetitive.

[Hannah stressedreader · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a transcript of the podcast by the same name. Interesting read about how and why people go missing, how they stay missing and what helps them and holds them back from their goal. I got this free on amazon so worth a download!

[Wendy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Transcripts which are very informative

[Natalie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a short read and conducted in an ethnographical interview format. It provided an insightful look into the world of missing people from various professional angles. Covers topics from, how it is possible to disappear and reasons for wanting to do so, to the life changing effects it has on the person having to give up their old life and start afresh without being traced (which is extremely difficult in this day and age) and the impact it has on the loved ones they leave behind. Made for a very interesting and enjoyable end.

[Jenny · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not really a book at all but transcript of 8 podcasts. Fairly interesting but nothing we've not heard before. Half of this slim volume was taken up by the first few chapters of his new (at the time) book. I've tried reading Tim Weaver's novels and did not like them. So, really, a waste of my time - just glad it was so short.

[Marie (UK) · Rating 3 out of 5]

there are some interesting facts here but quite repetitive

[Elise · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not my best read...I think it's because of it being a podcast transcript because the subject matter is very interesting and the presenter seems really passionate about it...

[Yumi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I learned a lot from this book. Its a short fast read.

[Colette L Frost · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting

An interesting insight into the effort required to go missing. Given this amount of research it makes complete sense why TW*s books are so good.