Okay, I’ll admit I was out partying yesterday. Now that I’m back in Ohio, I can go to the Christmas party for my mom’s family. Long drive there and back, but the weather was good, and there’s nothing better than family stories, laughter, and good food. And, Mom gave me a small box of her gumdrop bars!

All of this means I’m grateful that Kevin Tipple sent a review of Tracy Clark’s new book, Echo. It just came out last week, and there’s already buzz. Don’t take my word for it. Take Kevin’s.

It is late February in a very cold and icy Chicago as Echo: A Harriet Foster Thriller by Tracy
Clark begins. Ice pellets are falling hard this morning and Detective Foster’s day has already
been nasty before she gets inside the station and to her desk. She doesn’t even have a chance to
take off her coat before her and Detective Symansky are out the door and on the way to a frozen
field outside Belverton College.

The field, located outside of Hardwicke House has a dead body. The Hardwick House, that goes
back to the Gilded Age, is owned by the well-known billionaire, Sebestian Coller. As it happens,
the body out in the frozen icy wasteland of a field is his young son, Bruce Collier. He is shirtless,
reeking of alcohol and vomit, and clearly has been out in the field for hours.

Was it a party gone wrong? Did he get drunk and disoriented, wandered outside into the field,
collapse, and freeze to death?

Or was it murder?

Before long, as readers already know from the first chapter, it most assuredly was murder. Not
only was it murder, the people behind it are not done yet as they have a score to settle. Detective
Harriet Foster and others have a complicated case to work while at the same time Foster is the
target of another killer.

A complicated and very good police procedural, Echo is the latest installment of an excellent
series that started with Hide, followed by Fall. Readers are encouraged to read in order, starting
with Hide, as previous events are discussed here.

My reading copy came from the publisher, Thomas & Mercer, by way of NetGalley, with no
expectation of a review.

Kevin R. Tipple ©2024

Tracy Clark’s website is https://tracyclarkbooks.com/.

Echo (Detective Harriet Foster) by Tracy Clark. Thomas & Mercer, 2024. ISBN 9781662517327 (paperback), 364p.