Val McDermid: Dead Beat (UK 2019)

From the Publisher:
The stunning first novel in the Kate Brannigan series, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid.
'This is crime writing of the very highest order' The Times

Introducing Kate Brannigan, Manchester's most-loved private detective - a woman who won't take no for an answer.

As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing songwriter, Moria Pollock. It was supposed to be a nice simple case, but the search soon leads Kate into the dark underworld of Leeds, Manchester and Bradford - and finally to a shocking confrontation with a killer...

Val McDermid: Dead Beat. A Kate Brannigan Thriller. HarperCollins, ISBN 9780008344894 (November, 2019), 275 p., £8.99.

Val McDermid: Dead Beat & Kick Back (USA 2018)

From the Publisher:
Dead Beat introduces Kate Brannigan, a Thai boxing, rock-and-roll female private detective from Manchester.
As a favor 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. Juggling her other cases, including a search to uncover the source of counterfeit luxury goods, Brannigan finds herself for the first time on the trail of a killer.

In Kick Back, Kate Brannigan investigates 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 favor for a friend puts Kate's own life in danger, bizarre is not the first word she thinks of

Val McDermid: Dead Beat & Kick Back. Kate Brannigan Mysteries #1 and #2. Grove Paperback, ISBN 9780802128294 (July, 2018), 512 p., $17.00, eBook $10.49.

Val McDermid: Dead Beat (UK 2002)

From the Publisher:
Dead 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. HarperCollins, ISBN 0007142919 (October, 2002), 275 p., £6.99.

Val McDermid: Dead Beat (UK 1992)

From the Publisher:
A novel featuring the character Kate Bannigan, a Manchester-based private detective who likes Thai boxing, computer hacking and vodka. Against her instincts she agrees to track down a missing woman, a search which takes her into some of the meanest, seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford.

Val McDermid: Dead Beat. Gollancz, ISBN 0575053321 (May, 1992), 207 p., £13.99.