The Dead Beat

The Dead Beat

<p>Meet Martha. It's the first day of her new job as intern at Edinburgh's<i>The Standard</i>. But all's not well at the ailing newspaper, and Martha is carrying some serious baggage of her own.</p><p>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.</p><p>Setting in motion a frantic race around modern-day Edinburgh,<i>The Dead Beat </i>traces Martha's desperate search for answers to the dark mystery of her parents' past. Soundtracked 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 #1 Kindle bestseller, <i>Hit & Run</i>.</p>