Dead Beat (PI Kate Brannigan)
2 journalers for this copy...
This is the first book in the series, and it was written in 1992 so I have to cut the author some slack. It does hold up to a certain degree, but Kate Brannigan just doesn't engage me as a reader. I've read, and enjoyed other detectives who were a bit loose with their morals and methods...but for some reason Brannigan just doesn't interest me.
The book is well written so I will probably try another of McDermid's series.
From Publishers Weekly
Set in Manchester, England, which its natives claim as the home of rock 'n' roll, the forthright and unpretentious sleuth introduced in this fast-paced story is sure to win readers' hearts. Kate Brannigan is hired by rock legend Jett to locate his former partner and lover, Moira. Kate finds Moira, a rehabilitated drug user, living with--and in love with--Maggie, an ex-counselor. Moira reluctantly agrees to return to Jett to help his career while Kate goes back to her investigation of counterfeiters and her own lover, a rock journalist. But six weeks later Moira is murdered--beaned by a tenor sax--and Jett wants Kate to find which member of his inner circle is the culprit. As Kate questions Jett's entourage, she uncovers why everyone closest to him wanted Moira dead. McDermid's ( Open and Shut ) snappy, often comic prose keeps the story humming as Kate is drawn deeper and deeper into the twisted plot of her first murder investigation.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
The book is well written so I will probably try another of McDermid's series.
From Publishers Weekly
Set in Manchester, England, which its natives claim as the home of rock 'n' roll, the forthright and unpretentious sleuth introduced in this fast-paced story is sure to win readers' hearts. Kate Brannigan is hired by rock legend Jett to locate his former partner and lover, Moira. Kate finds Moira, a rehabilitated drug user, living with--and in love with--Maggie, an ex-counselor. Moira reluctantly agrees to return to Jett to help his career while Kate goes back to her investigation of counterfeiters and her own lover, a rock journalist. But six weeks later Moira is murdered--beaned by a tenor sax--and Jett wants Kate to find which member of his inner circle is the culprit. As Kate questions Jett's entourage, she uncovers why everyone closest to him wanted Moira dead. McDermid's ( Open and Shut ) snappy, often comic prose keeps the story humming as Kate is drawn deeper and deeper into the twisted plot of her first murder investigation.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Journal Entry 2 by alrescate at Nearly Famous Deli & Pasta House in Springfield, Missouri USA on Monday, December 12, 2016
Released 7 yrs ago (12/13/2016 UTC) at Nearly Famous Deli & Pasta House in Springfield, Missouri USA
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