Dead Beat
The stunning first novel in the Kate Brannigan series, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid.
‘This is crime writing of the very highest order’ The Times
Introducing Kate Brannigan, Manchester’s most-loved private detective – a woman who won’t take no for an answer.
As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing songwriter, Moria Pollock. It was supposed to be a nice simple case, but the search soon leads Kate into the dark underworld of Leeds, Manchester and Bradford – and finally to a shocking confrontation with a killer...
278 pages, 15 editions
English edition · First published 1992 by HarperCollins e-books · ISBN 9780007327645
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Editions
15 editions
English
- Dead Beat · HarperCollins e-books · 2009 · ISBN 9780007327645 This page
- Dead Beat · HarperCollinsPublishers · 2019 · ISBN 9780008344894
- Dead Beat · Whole Story Audio Books · 2019 · ISBN 9781510099135
- Dead Beat · HarperCollins · 2011 · ISBN 9780007905904
- Dead Beat · Bywater Books · 2006 · ISBN 9781932859188
- Dead Beat · Spinsters Ink Books · 2002 · ISBN 9781883523480
- Dead Beat · Spinsters Ink · 2002 · ISBN 9780007833894
- Dead Beat · Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 1999 · ISBN 9780752827803
- Dead Beat · Camden · 1998 · ISBN 9780745188478
- Dead Beat · Chivers · 1997 · ISBN 9780786209293
- Dead Beat · Chivers · 1997 · ISBN 9780745188461
- Dead Beat · Vista · 1996 · ISBN 9780575600027
- Dead Beat · St. Martin's Press · 1993 · ISBN 9780312087548
- Dead Beat · Gollancz Crime · 1993 · ISBN 9780575055216
- Dead Beat · Gollancz · 1992 · ISBN 9780575053328
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