PI Kate Brannigan Series Books 1-3: Dead Beat, Kick Back, Crack Down

PI Kate Brannigan Series Books 1-3: Dead Beat, Kick Back, Crack Down
Val McDermid

Three crime novels featuring PI Kate Brannigan from Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author Val McDermid.DEAD BEAT: Kate Brannigan is a female private detective set to do for Manchester what V.I. Warshawski has done for Chicago. As a favour to her rock journalist boyfriend, 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 only a prelude to murder…KICK BACK: Kate Brannigan, feisty Manchester-based PI, is back, investigating the bizarre case of the missing conservatories. Before long she’s up to her neck in crooked land deals, mortgage scams, financial chicanery – and murder. But when a favour for a friend puts Kate’s own life in danger, bizarre is not the first word she thinks of…CRACK DOWN: PI Kate Brannigan only let her boyfriend help out with an investigation into a car sales fraud because she thought it was safe. But by now Kate should know that with Richard you have to expect the unexpected. Soon she finds herself dragged into a world of drug traffickers, child pornographers, fraudsters and violent gangland enforcers bringing her face to face with death in the most terrifying investigation of her career.

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This is entirely a work of fiction. Any references to real people, living or dead, real events, businesses, organizations and localities are intended only to give the fiction a sense of reality and authenticity. All names, characters and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and their resemblance, if any, to real-life counterparts is entirely coincidental.

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VAL McDERMID

PI KATE BRANNIGAN SERIES

BOOKS 1–3

Dead BeatKick BackCrack Down

CONTENTS

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Copyright (#udcc1dc31-1a8a-55bc-af1e-08b5efdd39b8)

Dead Beat (#u223aa579-0d8a-5573-93c4-3ad9a1a5a8ba)

Kick Back (#litres_trial_promo)

Crack Down (#litres_trial_promo)

Keep Reading (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by Val McDermid (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

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VAL McDERMID

DEAD BEAT

DEDICATION (#ulink_a5aae17f-c17b-51f7-9be5-74d92bf12ab2)

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

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Part One

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Chapter 2 (#ulink_513323fc-d73f-5c3a-8fb5-daa5aa5e6341)

Chapter 3 (#ulink_f546fdf4-8a2c-562a-9fcb-77437f2cdfba)

Chapter 4 (#ulink_763f0204-2b47-58e2-96c7-0f48474979e9)

Chapter 5 (#ulink_dc133300-0793-5401-bcf6-0a8b8aaa432b)

Chapter 6 (#ulink_c3e59ec7-3884-55a5-b227-10552811f5cb)

Chapter 7 (#ulink_f8ed9f79-1728-5ed4-8f2c-0f4ffe180cf8)

Chapter 8 (#ulink_162daffd-93a3-5123-bf00-29ce0600fbbd)