Dead Beat

Dead Beat
Val McDermid

‘This is crime writing of the very highest order … Kate Brannigan has turned into the most interesting sleuthess around’ The TimesDead Beat introduces Kate Brannigan, a female private detective who does for Manchester what V.I. Warshawski has done for Chicago.As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing songwriter, Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realize that finding Moira is a prelude to murder…

VAL McDERMID

DEAD BEAT

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First published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz 1992 and Orion Books Ltd 1999

Copyright © Val McDermid 1992

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Source ISBN: 9780007142910

Ebook Edition © JUNE 2014 ISBN: 9780007327645

Version: 2014-09-05

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For Lisanne and Jane; can we just tell them that, then, darlings?

CONTENTS

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TITLE PAGE (#u5edbe49a-d965-56b4-8ffe-8972a9298685)

COPYRIGHT (#ulink_f93b3076-574a-5231-973a-989be2631aae)

DEDICATION (#u1555a1d4-ef11-5dea-aeb3-adcd2959824e)

Part One

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Chapter 2 (#ulink_d08290f5-ed30-5b02-9f9b-15e06dc09f47)

Chapter 3 (#ulink_cf892fb2-7eec-5398-93dc-fa0a20701947)

Chapter 4 (#ulink_5145a567-57fc-56f6-9db0-a482634116a4)

Chapter 5 (#ulink_d3f2b1e9-24dc-5d3f-8570-6ee281579a9c)

Chapter 6 (#ulink_070b6811-bfb4-51db-93a9-9fed7f998192)

Chapter 7 (#ulink_4e803825-ae08-53ee-b873-4a354ce71c32)

Chapter 8 (#ulink_e5b402cf-4710-5de7-bd8c-5d14a3869dbc)

Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Two

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)