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Kick Back (Paperback)

by Val McDermid (Author)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Harper; New edition edition (7 Oct 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007142927
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007142927
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11.3 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 54,745 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #15 in  Books > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Authors, A-Z > M > McDermid, Val

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'Kate Brannigan deserves promotion to the top rank, alongside Kinsey Millhone and V.I. Warshawski. Plot, characterization, pace are all first-rate, and Brannigan is one of the most likeable of all today's PIs' Sunday Telegraph 'A satisfying range of villains, Manchester and its environs turn deeply sinister and Brannigan toughs and wisecracks her way to a solution.' The Times

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'Kate Brannigan is truly welcome. Hot on one-liners, Chinese food, tabloid papers and Thai boxing, she is refreshingly funny' Daily Mail 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!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Val McDermid at her best!, 14 Oct 2001
By sophia@mancity.net (Stockholm, Sweden) - See all my reviews
This book has everything: It's funny, exciting, well written and I just love the heroine Kate Brannigan. I can't think of a better female role model! In this book Brannigan keeps quite busy. She takes on an absurdly mysterious case, where whole conservatories have gone missing. At the same time she has to help her best friend Alexis and her girlfriend, who want to build a new house. They buy a piece of land, only to realise that the same plot has been sold to someone else as well.
McDermid's style is absolutely brilliant and this is one of her best books, almost as good as Blue Genes. Brannigan is an even more convincing, interesting and incredibly funny person than Kinsey Milhone or any other female detective. This book is impossible to stop reading. I loved it so much I have actually reread it several times, something I seldom do with crime novels. Read it!
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2.0 out of 5 stars So different from her other novels - disappointing., 28 Jan 2008
By Robert Martin (England) - See all my reviews
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Having read lots of Val McDermid's books and loved every one, I was very disappointed with "Kick Back". I even considered not finishing the book - I just didn't care if the mystery was solved nor was I interested in Kate Brannigan. All of the other McDermid books I have read have been compulsive page turners - and often I would look forward to every opportunity to get reading. Not so with Kick Back which seemed pedestrian in comparison. I will still buy and read McDermid, but will stear clear of Kate Brannigan.
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