Crack Down
- Published
- 1 January 1994
- Pages
- 246
- ISBN-13
- 9780002325004
- Type
- novel
About this book
Crack Down is the third book in Kate Brannigan, published in 1994 at 246 pages, continuing Val McDermid's hardboiled-with-Mancunian-wit series as Kate's cases keep spiralling into something more dangerous than they first appear.
Key facts about Crack Down
Crack Down is a novel by Val McDermid. Readers have had it since 1994. It runs to 246 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Crack Down. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780002325004 to find the main one.
Crack Down is book 3 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
Crack Down is book 3 in the Kate Brannigan series. It follows Kick Back. It is followed by Clean Break. 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 9780002325004
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006490081
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007327546