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    Crack Down
    Crack Down
    Crack Down
    Audiobook7 hours

    Crack Down

    Written by Val McDermid

    Narrated by Chloe Massey

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    There was only one reason Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan was prepared to let her boyfriend help out with an investigation into a car sales fraud - nothing bad could happen. But by now Kate should know that with Richard you have to expect the unexpected. Richard behind bars, Kate seems to be the obvious choice to look after his eight-year-old son - who proves even more troublesome than his father. Kate finds herself dragged into a world of drug traffickers, child pornographers, fraudsters and violent gangland enforcers bringing her face to face with death in the most terrifying investigation of her career.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 3, 2019
    ISBN9781501989759
    Crack Down
    Author

    Val McDermid

    Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than forty languages, and have sold over nineteen million copies. She has won many awards, including the CWA Gold Dagger the LA Times Book of the Year Award and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding achievement. She writes full-time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife.

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    • 4/5
      Kate Brannigan is back, and this time it's personal!This was the third outing for Kate Brannigan who works as a private detective, and is junior partner in the firm of Mortensen and Brannigan, specialising in investigating 'white collar crime' in the Greater Manchester area in the 1990s. The novel opens with Kate and her boyfriend Richard posing as a married couple seeking to buy a smart new sports car in a bid to uncover an internal scam being run by the network of dealerships. Everything seems to be going smoothly, and they collect the car a couple of days later. That is where things start to go wrong. Although they are supposed to return the car, Richard, a rock journalist, decides to drive it to a concert he has to report on. Almost predictably, the car is stolen outside the venue. However, a couple of nights later, attending another gig in a different part of Manchester, Richard spots the car parked up, and, still having the keys with him, he decides to repossess it. He is stopped by traffic police a few minutes later, and as they find a package containing two kilos of crack in the boot, he is arrested and the police want to throw away the key. Brannigan is left to try to discover the truth.Like the other Kate Brannigan books, this is a gripping and cleverly constructed story. Kate Brannigan is a very engaging, empathetic and plausible character and narrates with a wry humour. The action is fast-paced, with Kate mixing with a variety of characters from the seamier side of life. Val McDermid's later novels became known for their goriness, with victims suffering acts of macabre violence. Those books, including the series featuring Carol Jordan and Tony Hill proved very successful, and the violence never seemed gratuitous. The Kate Brannigan novels, however, don't go down that route. There are certainly some extremely unwholesome characters, but their crimes remain relatively conventional. A very entertaining and well-weriiten story.
    • 3/5
      A real good read
    • 3/5
      Kate Brannigan private investigator starts by investigating a car finance fraud with her boyfriend Richard and he gets mixed up in a murder inquiry. They've become involved with a more complicated story of drugs, violence and child prostitution.
    • 5/5
      Good natured, fast-paced mystery which made me laugh out loud