| One Good Turn Contributor(s): Atkinson, Kate (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316012823 ISBN-13: 9780316012829 Publisher: Back Bay Books OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2007 Annotation: Following her mystery debut "Case Histories" with this percipient, funny, and totally satisfying read, Atkinson once again features ex-cop turned private investigator Jackson Brodie--except this time he is the prime suspect in a deadly crime. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Private Investigators - Fiction | Crime - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Traditional |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Jackson Brodie |
| Physical Information: 1.21" H x 5.6" W x 8.24" (0.91 lbs) 448 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: On a beautiful summer day, crowds lined up outside a theater witness a sudden act of extreme road rage: a tap on a fender triggers a nearly homicidal attack. Jackson Brodie, ex-cop, ex-private detective, new millionaire, is among the bystanders. The event thrusts Jackson into the orbit of the wife of an unscrupulous real estate tycoon, a washed-up comedian, a successful crime novelist, a mysterious Russian woman, and a female police detective. Each of them hiding a secret, each looking for love or money or redemption or escape, they all play a role in driving Jackson out of retirement and into the middle of several mysteries that intersect in one sinister scheme. Kate Atkinson "writes such fluid, sparkling prose that an ingenious plot almost seems too much to ask, but we get it anyway," writes Laura Miller for Salon. With a keen eye for the excesses of modern life, a warm understanding of the frailties of the human heart, and a genius for plots that turn and twist, Atkinson has written a novel that delights and surprises from the first page to the last. |