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  "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…",
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