Dead Beat
Synopsis:
Dead Beat introduces Kate Brannigan, a female
private detective set to do for Manchester what V.I. Warshawski
has done for Chicago. As a favour to her rock journalist boyfriend,
Kate agrees to track down a missing song-writer Moira Pollock, a
search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and
Bradford. But little does she realise that finding Moira is only
a prelude to murder. Juggling her other cases, including a search
to uncover the source of counterfeit luxury goods, Brannigan finds
herself for the first time on the trail of a killer.
Reviews:
The
Times
'Kate Brannigan is a sparky, funny and much to be welcomed
entrant into the still tiny profession of the female private eye...
[Dead Beat is] tough, exciting, moody and unpredictable.'
Sunday
Telegraph
'The story and characters are convincing and Kate is an
attractively persistent sleuth whom I hope to see again.'
Daily Telegraph, Mike Ripley
'You'd have to go far to meet a tougher girl gumshoe.' She
'A sparkling debut'.
