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Cover Your Tracks
- Author
- Claire Askew
- Narrator
- Sarah Barron
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 20 August 2020
- Run Time
- 11 hours 37 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
What to expect
'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
Critics Review
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Engaging
Literary Review
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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
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Thoroughly engrossing series
Sunday Sport
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It's as good as Rankin!
The Peterborough Telegraph
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Stunning
The Sunday Times
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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
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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
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User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
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5.0 5.0
3rd in the series, and just as good as the others. I love that these are not whodunnits but cover other sides of police work.
fluentindothraki 2025-03-28
Details
- Author
- Claire Askew
- Narrator
- Sarah Barron
- Duration
- 11 hours 37 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 August 2020
- ISBN
- 9781529327397
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: police procedural, Thriller / suspense fiction
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
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
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