Kick Back
Synopsis:
Kate Brannigan, feisty Manchester-based PI, is back, investigating the bizarre case of the missing conservatories. Before long she’s up to her neck in crooked land deals, mortgage scams, financial chicanery – and murder. But when a favour for a friend puts Kate’s own life in danger, bizarre is not the first word she thinks of…
Series: Kate Brannigan Series
UK Publisher: Golancz
Literary agent: Gregory & Company
Publishing date UK: 1993
- Book 1 –Dead Beat (Gollancz, 1992)
- Book 2 –Kick Back (Gollancz, 1993)
- Book 3 –Crack Down (HarperCollins, 1994)
- Book 4 –Clean Break (HarperCollins, 1995)
- Book 5 –Blue Genes (HarperCollins, 1996)
- Book 6 –Star Struck (HarperCollins, 1998)
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Reviews…
Kate Brannigan deserves promotion to the top rank, alongside Kinsey Millhone and V.I. Warshawski. Plot, characterisation, pace are all first-rate, and the bouncy Brannigan is one of the most likeable of all todays PIs.
— Sunday Telegraph
Kate Brannigan is truly welcome. A fictional equivalent of Victoria Wood, hot on one-liners, Chinese food, tabloid papers and Thai boxing, she is refreshingly funny.
— Daily Mail
A satisfying range of villains, Manchester and its environs turn deeply sinister and Brannigan toughs and wisecracks her way to a solution. Passes the Second Novel test triumphantly.
— The Times
Fast moving and entertaining.
— Crime Writers’ Association: Chairmen’s Choice
At long last, this is a genre heroine with a big heart, witty tongue and an understanding of modern youth. Fun at all levels.
— Evening Standard, Frances Fyfield
