# Dead Beat

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- Authors: [Val McDermid](https://www.bookquiver.com/val-mcdermid)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2019-11-14
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Crime and / or mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction

## Description

The stunning first novel in the Kate Brannigan series, from No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid.‘This is crime writing of the very highest order’ The TimesIntroducing Kate Brannigan, Manchester’s most-loved private detective – a woman who won’t take no for an answer. As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing songwriter, Moria Pollock. It was supposed to be a nice simple case, but the search soon leads Kate into the dark underworld of Leeds, Manchester and Bradford – and finally to a shocking confrontation with a killer…

## Editions

### Dead Beat

- Publisher: Hemlock Press
- ISBN: 978-00-0834-489-4
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2019-11-14
- Language: en_US