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      Dead Beat

      by Val McDermid
      Published
      Apr 1993
      Main Genre
      Private Investigator Private Investigator
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      240
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      A Kate Brannigan Mystery Book 1

      About This Book

      Dead Beat introduces Kate Brannigan, a female private detective set to do for Manchester what V. I. Warshawski has done for Chicago. As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing song writer Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realise that finding Moira is a prelude to murder ...

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      Suspense

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      Mystery Private Investigator

      Characters & Occupations

      LGBTQ Women Sleuths

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