Dead Beat
If you're so special, why aren't you dead?
Meet Martha. It's the first day of her new job as intern at Edinburgh'sThe Standard. But all's not well at the ailing newspaper, and Martha is carrying some serious baggage of her own.
Put straight onto the obituary page, she takes a call from a former employee who seems to commit suicide while on the phone, something which echoes with her own troubled past.
Setting in motion a frantic race around modern-day Edinburgh,The Dead Beat traces Martha's desperate search for answers to the dark mystery of her parents' past. Soundtracked by and interspersed with a series of gigs from the alternative music scene of her parents' generation in the early '90s, Doug Johnstone's latest page-turner is a wild ride of a thriller, and a perfect follow-on to his #1 Kindle bestseller, Hit & Run.
250 pages, 6 editions
English edition · First published 2014 by Faber and Faber · ISBN 9780571308859
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Editions
6 editions
English
- Dead Beat · Faber and Faber · 2014 · ISBN 9780571308859 This page
- The Dead Beat · Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio · 2020 · ISBN 9781799735854
- The Dead Beat · Faber and Faber · 2015 · ISBN 9780571308866
- The dead beat · WF Howes Ltd · 2014 · ISBN 9781471276415
- The Dead Beat · Faber and Faber · 2014 · ISBN 9780571308873
- The Dead Beat · ISBN 9781489350800
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