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.
Cover Your Tracks is published in ebook and hardbackback on the 20th August 2020. You can pre-order your copy using the link below.
My Review:
Cover My Tracks is another well written and completely compelling read from this talented author. It’s another outing for DI Helen who has to be one of my favourite fictional detectives as I love her grit and determination. She very funny, quite obstinate but very likeable which makes her a great character to follow throughout the book.
The actual case was quite an intriguing one which was interesting to see progress from quite a small case to a big one. The author gives the reader a fly on the wall view of the case which allows them to follow all the developments and come to their own conclusions. It’s quite a shocking case, with a very unlikeable protagonist who gets more and more unlikeable as the case continues. There is a few descriptions of domestic abuse in the story which might not be to everyone’s taste.
I thought this was a hugely enjoyable book, which although it does start of slow soon picks up pace to become very gripping. The plot was very believable and I liked how the author gradually built up the tension throughout the book as things develop. I found myself unable to guess what direction things would go which I always love. The ending was very shocking and unexpected though very satisfying. I hope this isn’t the last we see if Helen.
Huge thanks to Jenny Platt from Hodder for inviting me onto the blog tour and for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
Claire Askew is an award-winning poet and novelist. Her debut novel, All the Hidden Truths, won the 2016 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize as a work in progress, and was selected as a Times Crime Book of the Month. Claire has won numerous other accolades for her work, including the Jessie Kesson Fellowship and a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. She lives in Edinburgh.
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