Case Histories
Author(s): Kate Atkinson
Case Histories is Kate Atkinson's first foray into crime fiction, and introduces the popular Jackson Brodie, who returns in One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog. A six-part BBC1 drama series starring Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie and set in Edinburgh is scheduled for transmission in autumn 2011.
A sweltering, unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - Lost on the left, Found on the right - and the two never seem to balance. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life haunted by a family tragedy, Jackson attempts to unravel three disparate case histories and begins to realise that in spite of apparent diversity, everything is connected...
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"Not just the best book I've read this year, but the best mystery of the decade." - Stephen King "A wonderful novel told by a great storyteller who knows just how to create a voice, an image, a metaphor. . . . This witty and literate tale deserves to be read and re-read." "The Globe and Mail "Triumphant . . . Her best book yet . . . A tragi-comedy for our times." "Sunday Telegraph" (UK) "An astonishingly complex and moving literary detective story." "The Guardian"
General Fields
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- : Transworld Publishers Ltd
- : Black Swan
- : 0.302
- : 31 May 2011
- : 198mm X 127mm X 27mm
- : 01 December 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Kate Atkinson
- : Paperback
- : en
- : 427
