Star Struck: A Kate Brannigan Mystery
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (568 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1932859241 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 234 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Now a full-time writer, she divides her time between Manchester and Northumberland.. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. Val McDermid grew up in Kirkcaldy on the east coast of Scotland, then read English at Oxford
McDermid combines her wit and exuberant writing with a careful and clever plot and oodles of perceptive social observation. -- Marcel Berlins, The Times-LondonStar Struck is Val McDermid at the top of the ratings. -- Ian RankinWritten with fluent ease, making use of Kate Brannigan's own distinctive voice, Star Struck is a clever novel as well as an entertaining one. -- Natasha Cooper, Times Literary Supplement-London
B. Jonsson said On of the better Brannigans. Having read Mermaid Singing, I was disappointed when I read my first Brannigan, Kickback.In Star Struck however, the characters come out more clearly, to form everyday persons with everyday feelings. One can almost feel what Brannigan feels, see what she sees. The plot is a simple one, which all the more makes it worth reading, not endless lists of characters and events. Just what I want for a rainy day, something to get me interested and intrigued. In this book, the end could be guessed, which is one of the essentials o. "Star Quality" according to Helen. This is a great book and puts the author up there with Sue Grafton et al.An interesting plot with great and believable characterisations. The author weaves social commentary throughout the story, including a dig at paparazzi journalism (post Princess Diana), racial profiling by British coppers, and mental illness, and this is done without the heavy hand of other novels, including by this author.This book never gets too serious for its own good and there is plenty of lightheartedness thrown in. The plot wobbles a bit towa. What do I need to say. Hey, it's Val McDermid, what more do you need to know? Ok, you need to know that she is the best murder mystery, thriller, brain aching writer writing today. Her characters are real, her writing is spare but tells you all you need to know, she has great character development for the tales that cover several books, the books make great tv (Wire in the Blood). And I have yet to guess the ending to any story completely correctly.
What’s more, her tame hacker has found virtual love, her process server keeps getting arrested, and the ever-reliable Dennis has had the temerity to get himself charged with murder.Nobody told her there’d be days like these .. “There is no one in contemporary crime fiction who has managed to combine the visceral and the humane as well as Val McDermid. She manages, as always, to combine her wit and exuberant writing with a careful and clever plot and oodles of perceptive social observation.”—The Times (London)Bodyguarding had never made it to Manchester PI Kate Brannigan’s wish list. But somebody’s got to pay the bills at Brannigan & Co., and if the only earner on offer is playing nursemaid to a paranoid soap star, the fast-talking, computer-loving, white-collar-crime expert has to swallow her pride and slip into something more glam than her Thai-boxing kit.Soon, however, offstage dramas overshadow the fictional storylines, culminating in the unscripted murder of the self-styled “Seer to the Stars,” and Kate finds herself with more questions than answers. She’s the best.”—The New York Times Book Review“McDermid has a sharp ear for the dialogue and intrinsic humor of the Manchester dialect