Clean Break
- Published
- 1 January 1995
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN-13
- 9780002325011
- Type
- novel
About this book
Between Crack Down and Blue Genes, Kate Brannigan continued in 1995 with Clean Break, keeping to the series' pattern of Kate's relationship with Richard Barclay and her standing in the Manchester PI trade developing book to book.
Key facts about Clean Break
Val McDermid wrote Clean Break, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1995. The book has 256 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780002325011 to find the main one.
Clean Break is book 4 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
Clean Break is book 4 in the Kate Brannigan series. It follows Crack Down. It is followed by Blue Genes. 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 9780002325011
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006497721
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007327553