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I've just finished Chasing The Dead by Tim Weaver:

One year ago, Alex Towne's body was found.
One month ago, his mother saw him on the street.
One week ago, David Raker agreed to look for him.
Now he wishes he hadn’t.

Mary Towne’s son, Alex, went missing six years ago. Five years later he finally turned up – as a corpse in a car wreck. Missing persons investigator David Raker doesn’t want the work: it’s clearly a sad but hopeless case of mistaken identity brought to him by a woman unable to let go of her son. But haunted by a loss of his own, Raker reluctantly agrees. Big mistake. For as he digs deeper, he discovers that Alex’s life was not the innocent one his mother believed. Buried in his past are secrets that were never meant to be found – and dark, dangerous men willing to kill to protect them. Soon Raker will discover that there are things far worse than death . . .

I'm in a crime novel spree at the moment and I thought this was a great read, particularly for a debut novel ... not perfect, but still a great read. The story is compelling even if the end is a little contrived and I'd been reading a lot of American stuff so I really enjoyed the switch to the UK.

I have to admit, I have a pretty strong stomach but some of the graphic descriptions of violence in the book were disturbing.

Having said that, it was quite a page turner which had the PI pursuing quite a bold (for the UK) investigation.

Would recommend it to Crime novel fans.