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      VAL McDERMID

      DEAD BEAT

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      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers

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      Hammersmith, London W6 8JB

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz 1992 and Orion Books Ltd 1999

      Copyright © Val McDermid 1992

      Val McDermid asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007142910

      Ebook Edition © JUNE 2014 ISBN: 9780007327645

      Version: 2014-09-05

       DEDICATION

       For Lisanne and Jane; can we just tell them that, then, darlings?

      CONTENTS

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Part Two

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Chapter 28

       Chapter 29

       Chapter 30

       Chapter 31

       KEEP READING

       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

Part One

      I swear one day I’ll kill him. Kill who? The man next door, Richard Barclay, rock journalist and overgrown schoolboy, is who. I had stumbled wearily across the threshold of my bungalow, craving nothing more exotic than a few hours’ sleep

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