Dead Beat (PI Kate Brannigan, Book 1)

Val McDermid

May 2009 · PI Kate Brannigan Book 1 · HarperCollins UK

About this ebook

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...

Ratings and reviews

I'm confused as to why people compare this with the Tony Hill series! It's a completely different read. If you can't separate the two then you are wasting your time and missing out on a great read, neither should you write a review. Take the blinkers off and prepare for a great story.

A thin who done it you'd think was written for a 3 part Sunday night BBC drama.....

About the author

Val McDermid is a No.1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold more than sixteen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010 and received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011. In 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. In 2017, she received the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She is also the patron of the Scottish Book Trust. Val writes full time and lives in Edinburgh and the East Neuk of Fife.