Blue Genes
- Published
- 1 January 1996
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN-13
- 9780002325844
- Type
- novel
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.
Key facts about Blue Genes
Val McDermid wrote Blue Genes, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1996. The book has 240 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780002325844 to find the main one.
Blue Genes is book 5 of 6 in the Kate Brannigan series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with Dead Beat (1992).
Additionally, Val McDermid writes Lindsay Gordon, Tony Hill and Carol Jordan and Karen Pirie, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our crime fiction shelf. Meanwhile, This Door of the Seas is the latest published Val McDermid book on file, from 6 August 2026.
About Val McDermid
Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer whose career spans nearly four decades and five distinct series, making her one of the most prolific and structurally ambitious authors working in British crime fiction. See every Val McDermid book in order.
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780002325844
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006498315
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007327577