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Dead Beat

Golancz, 1992

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.

'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.' The Times

'The story and characters are convincing and Kate is an attractively persistent sleuth whom I hope to see again.' Sunday Telegraph

'You'd have to go far to meet a tougher girl gumshoe.' She
'A sparkling debut' Mike Ripley, Daily Telegraph

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