Dead Beat Author:Val McDermid When private investigator Kate Brannigan is asked to find a missing person as a favour, she accepts – after all, it’s got to be better than the last two weeks of staking out houses and warehouses from dawn until midnight, and living on motorway service station food. — The missing person in question is a songwriter, Moira Pollock, and ... more »Kate’s search leads her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But what she doesn’t realise, is that finding Moira is just a prelude to murder . . .« less