Cover Your Tracks, Claire Askew
Cover Your Tracks, Claire Askew
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Cover Your Tracks
From the Shortlisted CWA Gold Dagger Author

Author: Claire Askew

Series: DI Birch

Narrator: Sarah Barron

Unabridged: 11 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/20/2020

Synopsis

Claire Askew won the Scottish Debut Crime Award with her debut All the Hidden Truths, praised as 'A meticulous and compelling novel' by Ian Rankin.

'What if I told you,' he said, 'that I believe my mother's life to be in danger?'

Robertson Bennet returns to Edinburgh after a 25-year absence in search of his parents and his inheritance. But both have disappeared. A quick, routine police check should be enough - and Detective Inspector Helen Birch has enough on her plate trying to help her brother, Charlie, after an assault in prison. But all her instincts tell her not to let this case go. And so she digs.

George and Phamie Bennet were together for a long time. No one can ever really know the secrets kept between husband and wife. But as Birch slowly begins to unravel the truth, terrible crimes start to rise to the surface.

Beautifully written and ingeniously plotted, Cover Your Tracks confirms Claire Askew as a major new talent in crime fiction.

(P) 2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

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

When Robertson Bennet reports his long estranged parents George and Euphemia MacDonald missing, little did DI Helen Birch and DC Amy Kato imagine they would find themselves involved in such a complex case. It seems the last time the old couple are seen is around 2015, so where are they? George is a......more

Goodreads review by Louise

3.5 stars rounded up to 4 DI Helen Birch #3 Set in Edinburgh. Robertson Bennet goes to the police station to report his parents missing. He has just returned to Edinburgh after a twenty five year absence to search for his missing parents. DI Helen Birch has enough to contend with trying to help her br......more

Goodreads review by Liz

Cover Your Tracks is another great crime novel from Claire Askew, featuring once more the engaging and intriguing Helen Birch..I'm a fan of this series- three books in and the quality of writing and storytelling only gets better with each passing book. This time round a demanding son looking for his......more

Goodreads review by Elaine

I would like to thank Netgalley and Hodder & Stoughton for an advance copy of Cover Your Tracks, the third novel to feature Edinburgh based DI Helen Birch of Police Scotland. Robertson Bennett returns to Scotland after a thirty year estrangement to visit his parents, except he can’t find them, alive......more

Quotes

Engaging Literary Review

Askew tackles her third Edinburgh procedural with confidence in her original plot structure, warm characterisation and a credible story that resonates Sunday Times Crime Club

Thoroughly engrossing series Sunday Sport

It's as good as Rankin! The Peterborough Telegraph

Stunning The Sunday Times

This is the first of Askew's books I've read and I wasn't disappointed . . . I enjoyed being able to jump along for the ride on the back of Birch's hunch to dig up the truth Daily Record

A smart, thoughtful, intriguing crime novel. I absolutely adore this series, for me it contains one of the more realistic characters in the modern book world of policing LoveReading

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