Praise for Val McDermid's Kate Brannigan Series:
“The story and characters are convincing and Kate is an attractively persistent sleuth whom I hope to see again.”— Sunday Telegraph on Dead Beat
“You’d have to go far to meet a tougher girl gumshoe.”—Mike Ripley, Daily Telegraph on Dead Beat
“Fresh and funny, with a spanking sense of time and place.”— Literary Review on Dead Beat
“Kate Brannigan is a sparky, funny and much to be welcomed entrant into the still tiny profession of the female private eye.”— The Times Saturday Review on Dead Beat
“ McDermid's snappy, often comic prose keeps the story humming as Kate is drawn deeper and deeper into the twisted plot of her first murder investigation.”— Publishers Weekly on Dead Beat
“Kate Brannigan deserves promotion to the top rank, alongside Kinsey Millhone and V.I. Warshawski. Plot, characterisation, pace are all first-rate, and the bouncy Brannigan is one of the most likeable of all todays PIs.” — Sunday Telegraph on Kick Back
“Wry, spry, resourceful, resilient and fitted out with a quip for every contretemps”— TLS on Crack Down
“The action, as always, is non-stop, and Kate is a worthy protagonist. Long may she thrive.”— Books Magazine on Crack Down
“McDermid combines her wit and exuberant writing with a careful and clever plot and oodles of perceptive social observation.” — Marcel Berlins, The Times on Star Struck
“Val McDermid’s Kate Brannigan should remain firmly at the top of the private investigator’s league.”— Sunday Telegraph on Blue Genes
