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Kate Brannigan · Book 1

Dead Beat

by Val McDermid

Published
1 January 1992
Pages
220
ISBN-13
9780007327645
Type
novel

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About this book

Kate Brannigan begins with Dead Beat, published in 1992, the first of the series to be followed by Kick Back. It introduces Kate as a private investigator working the unglamorous end of 1990s Manchester -- corporate fraud, insurance scams, missing persons -- a deliberate answer to the male-dominated American hardboiled tradition.

Its place in Kate Brannigan

Dead Beat is book 1 in the Kate Brannigan series. It is followed by Kick Back. 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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