Line of Sight, James Queally
Line of Sight, James Queally
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Line of Sight

Author: James Queally

Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright

Unabridged: 8 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/12/2020


Synopsis

All favors come with a cost, and after using what little favors he has in the Newark PD to get his private investigator's license, former crime reporter Russell Avery finds himself paying.

He spends his days reluctantly keeping sideways cops out of the crosshairs of the Internal Affairs department. Until Keyonna Jackson, a social justice activist, presents him with a troubling video: a made-for-Youtube cell phone snippet chronicling the same kind of questionable use-of-force that had set New York City, Ferguson, and Cleveland on fire in recent years. The same use-of-force that he's been covering up for Newark PD.

Now, the young black man who filmed this video is dead and the more questions Russell asks, the less his cop buddies like him. For the first time in his life, Russell finds himself on the wrong side of the guys with the badges and guns. When details of the shooting become public—and a city with race riots in its DNA flirts with the idea of letting history repeat itself—Russell finds himself allying with street activists and gang members as he races to put together the biggest story of his life . . . before the city he needs to tell it to burns down around him.

About James Queally

James Queally is an award-winning crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Throughout his career, Queally has covered hundreds of homicides, as well as national use-of-force controversies and the Black Lives Matter Movement. His short stories have appeared in Thuglit, Crime Syndicate Magazine, Shotgun Honey, and more. Line of Sight is his debut novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on February 12, 2025

4.0 / 5.0 What a book, the book is equally balanced with details of Helen’s personal life and trauma after the events of the last two previous books and her professional life and savage her career back. I found her personal journey through her challenges and develop through the events reflects sweet......more

Goodreads review by Mary on February 10, 2025

I have read and thoroughly enjoyed all of Claire Askew’s Edinburgh based D.I. Helen Birch series, and this one is no exception. This is a series you will get the most from if you have read the series from the beginning, as D.I. Birch is a complex character whose journey throughout this series has ch......more

Goodreads review by Meg on March 09, 2025

Claire Askew delivers another gripping installment in the DI Helen Birch series with Line of Sight, a thought-provoking and suspenseful police procedural that explores themes of human trafficking, institutional bias, and personal resilience. Still recovering from serious injuries sustained in the lin......more

Goodreads review by Jackie on January 19, 2025

DCI Helen Birch is still on a phased return to work after sustaining serious injuries twice in the line of duty ( and in the last two books in the series). Fed up of endless paperwork and suffering from a disturbing recurring dream, when she is approached by an old friend of her mother’s for help wi......more

Goodreads review by Elite on February 28, 2025

Two young girls have disappeared. DI Helen Birch is back at work, still in agony after being shot. She is still unable to drive and still in therapy. Her mother’s friend comes to ask for her help when a young Vietnamese teenager under her guardianship disappears. Linh had been trafficked from Vietnam......more