Dead Beat

By Val McDermid

Subjects: Mystery, England, fiction, Women private investigators, Large type books, Women private investigators in fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Women detectives, Brannigan, kate (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Fiction, Kate Brannigan (Fictitious character), Women detectives in fiction

Description: "Dead Beat" introduces private detective Kate Brannigan. As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing songwriter, Moira Pollock. It is 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.