One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie) - Jackson Brodie (Paperback)
Kate Atkinson (author)- 10+ in stock
Jackson Brodie finds himself at the Edinburgh Fringe in the second of Kate Atkinson’s cerebral crime novels. With the big-hearted former detective under suspicion for murder, he sets about trying to wrest the truth from a richly drawn rogues’ gallery of fellow suspects. Another engaging and multi-layered mystery from the great Kate Atkinson.
It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival.
People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - a near-homicidal attack 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 murder suspect. As the body count mounts, each member of the teeming Dickensian cast's story contains a kernel of the next, like a set of nesting Russian dolls. They are all looking for love or money or redemption or escape: but what each actually discovers is their own true self.
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9780552772440
Number of pages: 544
Weight: 367 g
Dimensions: 198 x 127 x 34 mm
Kate Atkinson
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