Clean Break (PI Kate Brannigan, Book 4)

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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
When a Monet is stolen from a stately home, Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan goes head to head with organized crime as she hunts the thieves through Europe.

Meanwhile, someone is leaving a trail of bodies across the Northwest. As Kate confronts some harsh truths in her own life, the case stretches her love and loyalty to its limits.

Reviews

Stunningly exciting, horrifyingly good
Ruth Rendell

This book has a sense of gravitas and intelligence utterly beyond lesser writers in the field
Ian Rankin

Terrific chiller from Manchesters answer to Thomas Harris
Guardian

A clever and exciting thriller
Sunday Telegraph

A compelling combination of sexual-political mischief and Jacobean psychological intensity
Sunday Times (of The Wire in the Blood)

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.