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Dead Beat and Kick Back

Val McDermid

'This is crime writing of the very highest order ... Kate Brannigan has turned into the most interesting sleuthess around' The Times Dead Beat introduces Kate Brannigan, a female private detective who does for Manchester what V.I. Warshawski has done for Chicago. As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing songwriter, Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realize that finding Moira is a prelude to murder...

GenresDetective and mystery stories

275 pages

English edition · First published 2002 by HarperCollins · ISBN 9780007142910

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