Jackson brodie5/29/2023 From the first novel Case Histories to her long awaited fifth in the series Big Sky, we are let into the world of this slightly world weary PI. The Jackson Brodie novels were the first Kate Atkinson books I bought, one at a time as they were published. 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. In Case Histories we’re in a Cambridge that’s sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. It’s the sort of novel you have to start rereading the minute you’ve finished it’ Guardian ‘An astonishingly complex and moving literary detective story that made me sob but also snort with laughter.
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