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.

A breathless, real-time, 24-style thriller that combines nail-biting tension with boundless compassion

1. 2/5

   Goodness, how dull

   This was utterly tedious - by page 50, I was hoping that the gunman would kill her, to spare me any more of the drab daddy-and-brother porridge. Sadly she survives.

   Susan

   25 juli 2023

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.

A breathless, real-time, 24-style thriller that combines nail-biting tension with boundless compassion

1. 2/5

   Goodness, how dull

   This was utterly tedious - by page 50, I was hoping that the gunman would kill her, to spare me any more of the drab daddy-and-brother porridge. Sadly she survives.

   Susan

   25 juli 2023

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.

A breathless, real-time, 24-style thriller that combines nail-biting tension with boundless compassion

1. 2/5

   Goodness, how dull

   This was utterly tedious - by page 50, I was hoping that the gunman would kill her, to spare me any more of the drab daddy-and-brother porridge. Sadly she survives.

   Susan

   25 juli 2023