Kate Brannigan · Book 5

Blue Genes

by Val McDermid

Published
1 January 1996
Pages
240
ISBN-13
9780002325844
Type
novel

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About this book

Blue Genes (1996) follows Clean Break in Kate Brannigan and precedes Star Struck, continuing Kate's motorbike-riding, self-employed investigations through 1990s Manchester's corporate fraud and insurance scams.

Its place in Kate Brannigan

Blue Genes is book 5 in the Kate Brannigan series. It follows Clean Break. It is followed by Star Struck. See the full Kate Brannigan reading order.

Kate Brannigan is a private investigator working the unglamorous end of 1990s Manchester -- corporate fraud, insurance scams, missing persons, and the occasional case that spirals into something much more dangerous. She's a hardboiled heroine cut with very British, very Mancunian wit: motorbike-riding, self-employed, allergic to being condescended to, and paired for most of the series with an on-again boyfriend, Richard Barclay, whose own dodgy schemes keep dragging her into trouble. McDermid built the series as…

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