With Atkinson it's Raymond Chandler meets Jane Austen, and amazingly she makes it all work.'- The Washington Post's Best Summer Thrillers There isn't a character here - major or minor - who doesn't sashay resplendently off the page. 'The novel is brimming with the wit and let-justice-triumph tenacity that led the series to print bestsellerdom and a popular BBC-TV series. Thank goodness the long Jackson Brodie hiatus is over.'- Janet Maslin, New York Times It's a prime example of how Atkinson tells a great story, toys with expectations, deceives by omission, blows smoke and also writes like she's your favorite friend. It's a short chapter called 'Eloping,' and if you have a way of looking at it, do. It's a bit of a red herring, but it couldn't do a better job of throwing the reader off base and commanding instant interest. 'Atkinson opens 'Big Sky' with one perfect page. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.One of Vanity Fair's Best Books of the Year 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. 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. Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie) Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. They are all looking for love or money or redemption or escape: but what each actually discovers is their own true self. As the body count mounts, each member of the teeming Dickensian cast's story contains a kernel of the next, like a set of nesting Russian dolls. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a murder suspect. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - a near-homicidal attack which changes the lives of everyone involved.

One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie) It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware that hurtling towards her is a former acquaintance - Jackson Brodie - himself on a journey that becomes fatally interrupted. But her employer has disappeared with her baby, and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried.

In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie, wise beyond her years, works as a nanny for a G.P. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison. Kate Atkinson Collection Jackson Brodie Series 3 Books Set When Will There Be Good News?: One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie) Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie) Description: When Will There Be Good News?: In a quiet corner of rural Devon, a six-year-old girl witnesses an appalling crime.

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