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The first Jackson Brodie novel: literary crime from the prizewinning, number-one bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription.

Cambridge is sweltering, during an 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...

'An astonishingly complex and moving literary detective story that made me sob but also snort with laughter. It's the sort of novel you have to start rereading the minute you've finished it' Guardian

© Kate Atkinson 2004 (P) Penguin Audio 2010

Critics Review

Her best book yet, an astonishingly complex and moving literary detective story that made me sob but also snort with laughter. It's the sort of novel you have to start rereading the minute you've finished it
Guardian
Sharp humour, together with a number of unexpected twists makes this a typically pacey and intelligent read
Daily Mail
A greedy feast of a story by a masterful author...A profound, exciting and lingering read
Daily Express
Triumphant...Her best book yet...A tragi-comedy for our times
Sunday Telegraph
To read it is to enter a hall of mirrors...Part complex family drama, part mystery, it winds up having more depth and vividness than ordinary thrillers and more thrills than ordinary fiction...A wonderfully tricky book
New York Times
As satisfying as anything dreamed up by Raymond Chandler, but the beauty of the novel lies in its spot-on characterizations, pitch perfect observations of contemporary culture and a sharp, wisecracking narrative voice
Time Out
Shot through with sharp, black humour, and introducing a loveable hero in Brodie, this is storytelling that satisfies at every level
Marie Claire (Book of the Month)
Atkinson is very good indeed... more satisfying than many detective novels. Everyone who picks it up will feel compelled to follow it through to the last page
Guardian
Brilliantly playful, witty and original... massive and consistent talent for comedy
The Scotsman
Intriguing and affecting... she has also created a compelling central chracter in world-weary private investigator Jackson Brodie, who is determined to bring justice to all the lives that lie fractured around him
Red (Book of the Month)
Author Kate Atkinson
Narrator Jason Isaacs
Duration 5 hours and 30 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781409082705
Format Audiobook
Publisher Transworld
Genre Comic (humorous) crime and mystery, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives
Availability AU, GB, IE

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