THE DEAD BEAT

Meet Martha. It's the first day of her new job as intern at Edinburgh's 'The Sta
ndard'. 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 cal
l from a former employee who seems to commit suicide while on the phone, somethi
ng which echoes with her own troubled past. Setting in motion a frantic race aro
und modern-day Edinburgh, 'The Dead Beat' traces Martha's desperate search for a
nswers to the dark mystery of her parents' past.