

- Fiction, Mystery, Kate Brannigan (Fictitious character), Murder
Private eye Kate Brannigan confronts betrayal and cold-blooded greed as she investigates the alien world of medical experimentation and the underbelly of the rock music business. Kate Brannigan's not just having a bad day, she's having a bad week.
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Classical in form, contemporary, unpretentious and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Val McDermid
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Harper Collins Promotion, Bywater Books, Harp Collins
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780007809073
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