Kate Brannigan Clean Break (BBC Radio Crimes) [electronic resource]
Mcdermid, Val2011
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Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan is not amused when she is woken up in the middle of the night and informed that a Monet has been stolen from a stately home where she arranged security. Feeling that it's her responsibility to get it back, she decides to investigate - and after talking to the insurers, she discovers that the robbery was just the latest in a series of art thefts at British stately homes. There have been three identical burglaries in the past nine months, and an international gang seems to be implicated in all of them. Accompanied by her boyfriend Richard, Kate sets off on a chase across Europe that brings her head to head with organized crime...
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Unabridged
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[Place of publication not identified] : BBC Audio, 2011
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Biography/History:
Val McDermid is a Scottish author who was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, and educated at St. Hilda's College, Oxford. She wrote her first book, Report for Murder, in 1987, and since then she has sold over 10 million copies of 26 crime novels. Her 'Tony Hill' books have won several awards, including the 1995 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year for The Mermaids Singing and the 2006 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for The Torment of Others. They were adapted as a major television series, Wire in the Blood, starring Robson Green. Other books include the 'Lindsay Gordon' and 'Kate Brannigan' series and her non-fiction work Body of Evidence. In 2010, she was awarded the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement.
ISBN:
9781408497180
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English
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2305637