Kate Atkinson: One Good Turn, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

Das Leben einer Gruppe von Menschen, die zufällige Zeugen eines brutalen Gewaltakts werden, wird dadurch fatal durcheinander gebracht. Als da sind: eine schöne russische Putzfrau, ein charakterloser Krimiautor, ein Profikiller, eine gelangweilte Hausfrau - und Jackson Brodie. Kate Atkinson's brilliant bestselling follow-up to Case Histories, now a major 6-part BBC1 crime drama series with Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie.

Beschreibung

It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a suspect.

With Case Histories , Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In One Good Turn she takes her masterful plotting one step further. Like a set of Russian dolls each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last. Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ever with Atkinson what each one actually discovers is their true self.

Unputdownable and triumphant, One Good Turn is a sharply intelligent read that is also percipient, funny, and totally satisfying.

Klappentext

Featuring the popular protagonist Jackson Brodie from Atkinson's last bestselling novel, "Case Histories", this is a superior detective story with a cast of unusual characters. "Case Histories" sold over 300, 000 copies in paperback, and her first novel "Behind The Scenes At The Museum" won the Whitbread Book Of The Year Award. 'Atkinson, while having fun with the murder- mystery genre, slyly slips us a muted tragedy.' "Sunday Telegraph"