Blue Genes (PI Kate Brannigan, Book 5)
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Blue Genes (PI Kate Brannigan, Book 5)
By (Author) Val McDermid
Book 5
HarperCollins Publishers
Hemlock Press
3rd December 2019
28th November 2019
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
352
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm
260g
Description
A riveting Kate Brannigan thriller, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid.
Val McDermid remains unrivalled Observer
Kate Brannigans having a bad week. Her boyfriends death notice is in the paper and her plan to catch a team of fraudsters is in disarray.
Kate cant even cry on her best friends shoulder, for Alexis has worries of her own. Her girlfriends pregnant, and when the doctor responsible for the fertility treatment is murdered, Alexis needs Kate like shes never done before.
Delving into the alien world of medical experimentation, Kate confronts betrayal and cold-blooded greed as she fights to save not only her livelihood, but her life as well
Reviews
One of my favourite authors
Sara Paretsky
Kate Brannigan is truly welcome she is refreshingly funny Daily Mail
This is crime writing of the very highest order Marcel Berlins, The Times
McDermid packs it all into 237 highly readable pages Natasha Cooper, TLS
A powerful sense of place and the usual flak of misanthropic one-liners Literary Review
Praise for Val McDermid:
'No one rivals Val McDermids skill at writing truly terrifying thrillers Good Housekeeping
The real mistress of psychological gripping thrillers' Daily Express
'McDermid's capacity to enter the warped mind of a deviant criminal is shiveringly convincing' The Times
Val McDermid is undoubtedly the queen of British crime Observer
'McDermids expertly juggled plotlines and masterful handling of pace and tension tick all the best boxes Guardian
The queen of crime is still at the top of her game Independent
One of todays most accomplished crime writers Literary Review
Her writing is never less than excellent Crime Time
Author Bio
Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. She divides her time between Northumberland and Cheshire.
