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Brannigan is truly welcome. Hot on one-liners, Chinese food, tabloid papers and Thai boxing, she is refreshingly funny - Daily Mail.
After storming onto our pages in Dead Beat, 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...
ʡte 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.
￠satisfying range of villains, Manchester and its environs turn deeply sinister and Brannigan toughs and wisecracks her way to a solution - The Times.
About The Author
Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. She is now a full-time writer and lives in South Manchester.
'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
ISBN: 9780007142927
ISBN-10: 0007142927
Series: Kate Brannigan Mystery Ser.
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 240
Published: 7th October 2002
Dimensions (cm): 17.8 x 11.1
x 1.8
Weight (kg): 0.154
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