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Blue Genes (2006)

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0006498310 (ISBN13: 9780006498315)
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Blue Genes (2006) - Plot & Excerpts

While trying to find a new business partner, Kate tackles three cases: a fly-posting scam, a burial scam, and a murder case involving a murdered fertility specialist. This last was particularly interesting to me since my own Seminal Murder also features such a scientist. McDermid's scientist, however, is more ambitious than my fictional one, creating female babies with the X chromosomes of two women!In the acknowledgments to this 1996 novel, McDermid writes, "What is outlined in this novel is more or less within the realms of possible science....Somebody somewhere is almost certainly carrying out the experiments that will make these procedures happen by the millennium probably for very large sums of money." I haven't heard of these procedures happening--didn't come across the issue while researching Seminal Murder--but maybe the experiments are happening all cloak and dagger. Does anyone know?I ask only out of curiousity. Like Kate Brannigan and my own Mara Gilgannon, I am happily child-free.One more note: Blue Genes is the first Kate Brannigan I've read, yet my own novels seem to have been influenced by her. I suppose I've read other novels that McDermid has shaped. At any rate, I look forward to read more of Kate's adventures.

Val McDermid is breathe of fresh air and gives mystery a new edge. Kate Brannigan and the characters of "Blue Genes" are colorful .The quips /wisecracks on page one drew me into the meat of the book.... all the wAY to page 297. Brannigan talks tough and has the energizer bunnies pace, but is full of twist & turns to get to the basis of the crimes she is trying to solve.I read many genre, many authors , American & International. I believe McDermid to be one of the best British writers of

What do You think about Blue Genes (2006)?

I took a break from this series, but do want to finish it, and enjoyed this one more than the last couple. As before, Kate investigates a few unrelated cases and solves a personal dilemma at the same time, solving the murder of a fertility specialist who has been treating her best friend Alexis, helping out a punk band whose gigs are being sabotaged by Mancunian organised crime elements, and finding a new partner when Bill falls in love with an Australian and decides to emigrate. The book came out in 1996, so at least she now has a cellphone and the musical references aren't quite as jarring. I liked her musings about silk shirts and how they suddenly became so cheap in the 1990s - I still have tons of them and even wear them occasionally, so wouldn't mind knowing the answer.I didn't like Kate's selfish reaction to Bill's news, and Shelley's is even worse, but they do redeem themselves by the end and resolve their situation in a way that was completely predictable. I also guessed whodunnit for the murder, and despite a bit of action from our kick-boxing heroine, was not gripped, so this still only gets 3 stars, but I'm more optimistic about the last one now.
—The Cats Mother

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