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By Val McDermid

A riveting Kate Brannigan thriller, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid.

‘Val McDermid remains unrivalled’ Observer

Kate Brannigan’s having a bad week. Her boyfriend’s death notice is in the paper and her plan to catch a team of fraudsters is in disarray.

Kate can’t even cry on her best friend’s shoulder, for Alexis has worries of her own. Her girlfriend’s pregnant, and when the doctor responsible for the fertility treatment is murdered, Alexis needs Kate like she’s 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…

Author: Val McDermid
Format: Paperback (A Format)
Release Date: 01 Dec 2003
Pages: 352
ISBN: 978-0-00-649831-5
Val McDermid is a No.1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold more than sixteen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010 and received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011. In 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. In 2017, she received the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She is also the patron of the Scottish Book Trust. Val writes full time and lives in Edinburgh and the East Neuk of Fife.

‘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 McDermid’s 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

”'McDermid’s 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 today’s most accomplished crime writers” - Literary Review

”'Her writing is never less than excellent” - Crime Time

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