Case Histories

Atkinson, Kate

£9.99

Full of suspense and heartbreak, ‘Case Histories’ is a feat of bravura storytelling that conveys the mysteries of life, its inanities and its hilarities. Jackson is 45 but feels much older. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life is brought sharply into focus.

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Publish Date: 01/06/2005

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

‘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

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…

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Weight 293 g
Dimensions 198 × 127 × 26 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

409

Language

English

Edition

Reissue

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K