The Dead Beat
Author(s): Doug Johnstone
Meet Martha. It's the first day of her new job as intern at Edinburgh's The Standard. But all's not well at the ailing newspaper, and Martha is carrying some serious baggage of her own. Put straight onto the obituary page, she takes a call from a former employee who seems to commit suicide while on the phone, something which echoes with her own troubled past. Setting in motion a frantic race around modern-day Edinburgh, The Dead Beat traces Martha's desperate search for answers to the dark mystery of her parents' past. Sound tracked by and interspersed with a series of gigs from the alternative music scene of her parents' generation in the early '90s, Doug Johnstone's latest page-turner is a wild ride of a thriller, and a perfect follow-on to his number 1 Kindle bestseller, Hit & Run.
Product Information
The author of Gone Again returns with another heart pounding thriller
Doug Johnstone is the author of five novels, most recently the acclaimed Gone Again. He is also a freelance journalist, a songwriter and musician, and has a PhD in nuclear physics. He lives in Edinburgh.
General Fields
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- : Faber & Faber
- : Faber & Faber Crime
- : 0.365
- : April 2014
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : United Kingdom
- : May 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : Doug Johnstone
- : Paperback
- : May-14
- : 823.92
- : 272