by Doug Johnstone · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571308859
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«The Dead Beat» is the suspense novel by Doug Johnstone, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (272 pages, in English).
Martha starts as an intern at the Edinburgh newspaper The Standard. Soon she is assigned to the obituaries section, where she receives a call from a former employee who seems to take his own life while talking to her; the event stirs up her past and drives her to investigate the mystery of her parents. The alternative music of the nineties accompanies her race against time across the city.
The novel appeared in 2014; Doug Johnstone is also a journalist, composer and musician, with a PhD in nuclear physics.
For readers of suspense and crime fiction who enjoy characters with a complicated past, family secrets and a contemporary Edinburgh as a setting.
