Case Histories

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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.

Jackson has never felt at home in Cambridge, and has a failed marriage to prove it. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life haunted by a family tragedy, he attempts to unravel three disparate case histories and begins to realise that in spite of apparent diversity, everything is connected...

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)

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