A Matter of Time, Claire Askew
A Matter of Time, Claire Askew
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A Matter of Time
The tense and thrilling hostage thriller, nominated for the McIlvanney Prize

Author: Claire Askew

Series: DI Birch

Narrator: Sarah Barron, Simon Slater

Unabridged: 8 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/10/2022

Synopsis

At 8am the first shots are fired.

At 1pm, the police establish the gunman has a hostage.

By 5pm, a siege is underway.

At 9pm, DI Helen Birch walks, alone and unarmed, into an abandoned Borders farmhouse to negotiate with the killer.

One day. One woman. One chance to get everyone out alive.

The outstanding new novel from the highly acclaimed author of All the Hidden Truths and What You Pay For - both shortlisted for the CWA Golden Dagger.

A beautifully written and plotted police procedural from a rising star in the genre who has delivered a game-changing fourth book: 'Claire Askew takes us away from the obvious plot and asks us tantalising questions ... an absorbing, thought-provoking entry into crime fiction' - The Times

(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

About Claire Askew

Claire Askew's debut novel All The Hidden Truths won the 2016 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize as a work in progress, and the 2019 McIlvanney Debut Crime Fiction Award. Two of her novels have been shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. Her fourth novel, A Matter of Time, was longlisted for the McIlvanney Crime Novel of the Year 2022. Claire is also a poet and non-fiction writer and she lives in Carlisle.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ceecee

4+ DI Helen Birch prepares for the day telling herself it’s going to be a good one. She visits brother Charlie where she hears the news of a mass shooting just outside Kelso in the Scottish Borders. What unfolds is far, far away from the good day she envisages. The story is told in hourly narratives......more

Goodreads review by Louise

DI Helen Birch #4 At 8am the first shots were fired. At 1pm, the police establish the gunman has a hostage. By 5pm, a siege is underway. At 9pm, DI Helen Birch walks alone and unarmed into a Borders farmhouse to negotiate with the killer. This story is set over 24 hours. It also centres around the foo......more

Goodreads review by Karen

4 / 5 Wow. That was a intense, nail biting plot that had me on the edge of my seat throughout the whole plot from start to finish. This is such a easy read, short under 300 pages which added to the whole reading experience. I truly have not read a book like this in a while, and honestly it felt like I......more

Quotes

A breathless, real-time, 24-style thriller that combines nail-biting tension with boundless compassion Erin Kelly

Tell Jack Bauer he's been supplanted . . . taut The i newspaper

Claire Askew is proving to be a master of the suspenseful police procedural Sunday Times Crime Club

This 24-style thriller is filled with nail-biting tension The Scots Magazine

This nail-biter keeps up a rollicking pace - this is one you're likely to devour in one sitting My Weekly

Tension-packed Carlisle Living

Breathtaking On Magazine

Nail-biting Crime Monthly

An engrossing and thought provoking read Belfast Telegraph

Very tense, sad and tragic, a thought provoking read NB Books

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