The stunning first novel in the Kate Brannigan series, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid. `This is crime writing of the very highest order´ The Times Introducing Kate Brannigan, Manchester´s most-loved private detective - a woman who won´t take no for an answer. As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing songwriter, Moria Pollock. It was supposed to be a nice simple case, but the search soon leads Kate into the dark underworld of Leeds, Manchester and Bradford - and finally to a shocking confrontation with a killer...