Line of Sight, 9781529348392
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Missing girls, psychic visions, and a race against time to survive.
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Line of Sight

a tense and twisty crime thriller that you won't be able to put down, from the prizewinning di birch series

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  • Paperback

    448 pages

  • Release Date

    5 January 2026

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Summary

Line of Sight: A Race Against Time

A woman slipping through the cracks …

When a young Vietnamese girl goes missing in Scotland, DI Birch knows there is more to the case than meets the eye. Her colleagues won’t take it seriously - but Helen’s instinct tells her that Linh is in mortal danger.

A psychic determined to help …

Beatrice knows something terrible has happened to three young people in Edinburgh. She can see them in her…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529348392
ISBN-10:1529348390
Series:DI Birch
Author:Claire Askew
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:448
Release Date:5 January 2026
Weight:309g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 38mm
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Critics Review

PRAISE FOR CLAIRE ASKEW:A breathless, real-time, 24-style thriller that combines nail-biting tension with boundless compassion * Erin Kelly, bestselling author of THE HOUSE OF MIRRORS *A brilliant thriller! * Bella *Tell Jack Bauer he’s been supplanted … taut * i Newspaper *Utterly captivating * Heat *Compelling * Marie Claire *Claire Askew is proving to be a master of the suspenseful police procedural * Sunday Times Crime Club *Askew has delivered a peak page-turner and fans of crime fiction will be left with a cliffhanger ending and a pronounced desire to learn where DI Birch turns up next … * Irish Examiner *Terrific! * Peterborough Telegraph *A riveting read! * Sunday Times *

About The Author

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.

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