Book description
'Kate Brannigan is truly welcome. Hot on one-liners, Chinese food,
tabloid papers and Thai boxing, she is refreshingly funny' Daily Mail
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… 'Kate Brannigan deserves
promotion to the top rank, alongside Kinsey Millhone and V. I.
Warshawski. Plot, characterization, pace are all first-rate, and
Brannigan is one of the most likeable of all today's PIs'
Sunday Telegraph
'A satisfying range of villains, Manchester and its environs turn
deeply sinister and Brannigan toughs and wisecracks her way to a solution.'
The Times Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then
read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending
the last three as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid.
She is now a full-time writer and lives in South Manchester.
