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Dead Beat (Paperback)

by Val McDermid (Author)
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Harper; New edition edition (7 Oct 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007142919
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007142910
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 26,237 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Solid pleasure! this moves along with the speed of a Porsche, so smooth you can almost kid yourself you haven't been sitting on the edge of your seat throughout' Mail on Sunday 'Zippy action, a well-crafted plot and some refreshingly gritty northern truths' The Times


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'This is crime writing of the very highest order ! Kate Brannigan has turned into the most interesting sleuthess around' The Times Dead Beat introduces Kate Brannigan, a female private detective who does for Manchester what V.I. Warshawski has done for Chicago. As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing songwriter, Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realize that finding Moira is a prelude to murder!
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!, 23 Oct 2002
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This is one in Val McDermid's "Kate Brannigan" series and is up to her usual high standard. Kate is a very believable PI with personal and domestic problems, just like everyone else with a life! There are no pretentions here, just an upbeat, pacy, investigation into stange circumstances surrounding the death of a fading rock star's ex-girlfriend. Plenty of booze, takeaways and witty one-liners. Great stuff!
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An unputdownable read., 25 Feb 2001
How Kate Brannigan singlehandedlly takes on the drug barons of Manchester, babysits her boyfriend's son, risking her life in the process, and all in the name of love, leaves you gasping for breath! Utterly believable and down-to-earth too.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 30 Jun 2008
I too came to this having read Val McDermid's Tony Hill novels which I love. At times this reminded me of an Enid Blyton famous five crime novel! It was written in 1992 and VD has clearly developed greatly as a writer since then. It was amusing to read a crime story set in the late 80s, early 90s with it's pain staking description of the new fangled 'electronic mail' which journalists are using to send copy from one computer to another and the absence of mobile phones, how things have changed.
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As usual with Val McDermid it was a great read, have never read anything of hers yet that I haven't enjoyed thoroughly.
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