Star Struck
- Published
- 1 January 1998
- Pages
- 318
- ISBN-13
- 9780002325851
- Type
- novel
About this book
Star Struck is the sixth and final book in Kate Brannigan, published in 1998 at 318 pages, closing out Val McDermid's answer to the male-dominated American hardboiled tradition.
Key facts about Star Struck
Star Struck is a novel by Val McDermid. Readers have had it since 1998. It runs to 318 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Star Struck. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780002325851 to find the main one.
Star Struck is book 6 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
Star Struck is book 6 in the Kate Brannigan series. It follows 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 9780002325851
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780002326773
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006498322