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Dead Beat (Kate Brannigan Series #1)

Name: Dead Beat (Kate Brannigan Series #1)
Author: Val McDermid
ISBN: 9781932859188

by Val McDermid

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Overview

“Kate Brannigan is a breath of fresh air.”—Publishers Weekly

Dead Beat introduces Kate Brannigan, who does for Manchester what VI Warshawski has done for Chicago.
When Kate Brannigan agrees to track down a missing songwriter, a search that takes her into the seediest parts of Leeds, little does she realize that finding her is a prelude to murder.

Synopsis

Kate Brannigan does for Manchester what V.I. Warshawski has done for Chicago.

Sarah Paretsky

Val McDermid is one of my favorite authors.

About the Author, Val McDermid

Val McDermid grew up in Kirkcaldy on the east coast of Scotland, then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. Now a full-time writer, she divides her time between Manchester and Northumberland.

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Robert Barnard

Snappy,witty,and fast. Kate Brannigan is in there in competition with her jogging,sweating American counterparts.

Sarah Paretsky

Val McDermid is one of my favorite authors.

Publishers Weekly

Set in Manchester, England, which its natives claim as the home of rock 'n' roll, the forthright and unpretentious sleuth introduced in this fast-paced story is sure to win readers' hearts. Kate Brannigan is hired by rock legend Jett to locate his former partner and lover, Moira. Kate finds Moira, a rehabilitated drug user, living with--and in love with--Maggie, an ex-counselor. Moira reluctantly agrees to return to Jett to help his career while Kate goes back to her investigation of counterfeiters and her own lover, a rock journalist. But six weeks later Moira is murdered--beaned by a tenor sax--and Jett wants Kate to find which member of his inner circle is the culprit. As Kate questions Jett's entourage, she uncovers why everyone closest to him wanted Moira dead. McDermid's ( Open and Shut ) snappy, often comic prose keeps the story humming as Kate is drawn deeper and deeper into the twisted plot of her first murder investigation. (Feb.)