Kate Brannigan · Book 3
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.
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