Kick Back
- Published
- 1 January 1993
- Pages
- 232
- ISBN-13
- 9780007142927
- Type
- novel
About this book
Kick Back (1993) follows Dead Beat in Kate Brannigan and precedes Crack Down, continuing Kate's Manchester PI work alongside her on-again boyfriend Richard Barclay, whose own dodgy schemes keep dragging her into trouble.
Key facts about Kick Back
Val McDermid wrote Kick Back, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1993. The book has 232 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007142927 to find the main one.
Kick Back is book 2 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
Kick Back is book 2 in the Kate Brannigan series. It follows Dead Beat. It is followed by Crack Down. 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 9780007142927
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007327638
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780008344900