Clean Break

Clean Break
Val McDermid

Manchester-based, kick-boxing PI Kate Brannigan takes on the hard men of European organised crime as she battles to recover a Monet in a case that stretches love and loyalty to the limits.Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan is not amused when thieves have the audacity to steal a Monet from a stately home where she’s arranged security. She’s even less thrilled when the hunt for the thieves drags her on a treacherous foray across Europe as she goes head to head with organized crime. And as if that isn’t enough, a routine industrial case starts leaving a trail of bodies across the Northwest, giving Kate more problems than she can deal with.Cleaning up the mess in Clean Break forces Kate to confront harsh truths in her own life as she battles with a testing array of villains in a case that stretches love and loyalty to the limits.

VAL McDERMID

Clean Break

Copyright (#u510b7e84-6161-5a37-827f-1d86e2904830)

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1995

Copyright © Val McDermid 1995

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Table of Contents

Title Page (#u0bd7e461-3835-55ff-82b2-5ab6e6dc94ee)

Copyright

Dedication

Chapter 1 (#ulink_bf9cb23f-435a-52ff-b85c-e32ff9879134)

Chapter 2 (#ulink_734d989d-f8e1-59fb-9441-21d0e20ecced)

Chapter 3 (#ulink_989fbfee-2480-53b6-80fe-0fe12dc5cc4d)

Chapter 4 (#ulink_d9d6f85f-d430-59fd-8120-fdda60e226eb)

Chapter 5 (#ulink_4c7d8e01-1a95-580c-ae95-820c37d7a62f)

Chapter 6 (#ulink_fb430123-a18c-5d0f-84ff-5c6cc52b602d)

Chapter 7 (#ulink_6ce3a154-909a-5458-a938-3fb261a9a3db)

Chapter 8 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

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)

Chapter 24 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 25 (#litres_trial_promo)