PI Kate Brannigan Series Books 1-3: Dead Beat, Kick Back, Crack Down

PI Kate Brannigan Series Books 1-3: Dead Beat, Kick Back, Crack Down
Author: Val McDermid
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2014-05-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007557566

Three crime novels featuring Kate Brannigan – Machester’s most-loved private detective, a woman who won’t take no for an answer. ‘This is crime writing of the very highest order’ The Times

Dead Beat (PI Kate Brannigan, Book 1)

Dead Beat (PI Kate Brannigan, Book 1)
Author: Val McDermid
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2009-05-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007327641

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

Kick Back

Kick Back
Author: Val McDermid
Publisher: Bywater Books
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1932859195

Manchester's answer to Kinsey Millhone investigates what happens when an Englishman's home is not

Star Struck

Star Struck
Author: Val McDermid
Publisher: Bywater Books
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1932859241

Kate Brannigan, Manchester's answer to Kinsey Millhone, returns with a new case.

The Wire in the Blood

The Wire in the Blood
Author: Val McDermid
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007344732

Taut, suspenseful and ferociously readable thriller featuring psychological profiler Dr Tony Hill, hero of the hugely succesful television series 'The Wire in the Blood'.

The Shallows

The Shallows
Author: Matt Goldman
Publisher: Forge Books
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250191327

In the words of Lee Child on Gone to Dust, “I want more of Nils Shapiro.” New York Times Best Selling author and Emmy Award-winning writer Matt Goldman obliges by bringing the Minneapolis private detective back for another thrilling, stand-alone adventure in The Shallows. A prominent lawyer is found dead, tied to his own dock by a fishing stringer through his jaw, and everyone wants private detective Nils Shapiro to protect them from suspicion: The unfaithful widow. Her artist boyfriend. The lawyer’s firm. A polarizing congressional candidate. A rudderless suburban police department. Even the FBI. Nils and his investigative partners illuminate a sticky web of secrets and deceit that draws national attention. But finding the web doesn’t prevent Nils from getting caught in it. Just when his safety is most in peril, his personal life takes an unexpected twist, facing its own snarl of surprise and deception. In The Shallows, Goldman delves into the threat of dark history repeating itself while delivering another page-turner with his signature pace, humor, and richly drawn characters. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Murder at the Porte de Versailles

Murder at the Porte de Versailles
Author: Cara Black
Publisher: Soho Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2022-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1641290447

This riveting 20th installment entangles Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc in a dangerous web of international spycraft and terrorist threats in Paris's 15th arrondissement. November 2001: in the wake of 9/11, Paris is living in a state of fear. For Aimée Leduc, November is bittersweet: the anniversary of her father’s death and her daughter’s third birthday fall on the same day. A gathering for family and friends is disrupted when a bomb goes off at the police laboratory—and Boris Viard, the partner of Aimée’s friend Michou, is found unconscious at the scene of the crime with traces of explosives under his fingernails. Aimée doesn’t believe Boris set the bomb. In an effort to prove this, she battles the police and his own lab colleagues, collecting conflicting eyewitness reports. When a member of the French secret service drafts Aimée to help investigate possible links to an Iranian Revolutionary guard and fugitive radicals who bombed Interpol in the 1980s, Aimée uncovers ties to a cold case of her father’s. As Aimée scours the streets of the 15th arrondissement trying to learn the truth, she has to ask herself if she should succumb to pressure from Chloe’s biological father and move them out to his farm in Brittany. But could Aimée Leduc ever leave Paris?

Vera Kelly: Lost and Found

Vera Kelly: Lost and Found
Author: Rosalie Knecht
Publisher: Tin House Books
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2022-06-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1953534244

A New York Times and CrimeReads Best Mystery Novel of 2022 A Star Tribune Best Book of Summer & an Autostraddle Best Queer Book of 2022 A Book Riot and ALTA Journal Best Book of the Month Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ Crime Writing Everyone’s favorite sleuth—Vera Kelly—is back and put to the test as she searches for her missing girlfriend. It’s spring 1971 and Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave their cozy Brooklyn apartment for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in Los Angeles. Max’s parents are divorcing—her father is already engaged to a much younger woman and under the sway of an occultist charlatan; her mother has left their estate in a hurry with no indication of return. Max, who hasn’t seen her family since they threw her out at the age of twenty-one, prepares for the trip with equal parts dread and anger. Upon arriving, Vera is shocked by the size and extravagance of the Comstock estate—the sprawling, manicured landscape; expansive and ornate buildings; and garages full of luxury cars reveal a privileged upbringing that, up until this point, Max had only hinted at—while Max attempts to navigate her father, who is hostile and controlling, and the occultist, St. James, who is charming but appears to be siphoning family money. Tensions boil over at dinner when Max threatens to alert her mother—and her mother’s lawyers—to St. James and her father’s plans using marital assets. The next morning, when Vera wakes up, Max is gone. In Vera Kelly Lost and Found, Rosalie Knecht gives Vera her highest-stake case yet, as Vera quickly puts her private detective skills to good use and tracks a trail of breadcrumbs across southern California to find her missing girlfriend. She travels first to a film set in Santa Ynez and, ultimately, to a most unlikely destination where Vera has to decide how much she is willing to commit to save the woman she loves.

Clean Break (PI Kate Brannigan, Book 4)

Clean Break (PI Kate Brannigan, Book 4)
Author: Val McDermid
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2009-05-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007327552

The fourth riveting thriller in the Kate Brannigan series, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid. ‘The Queen of Crime is still at the top of her game’ Independent