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  • Published: 4 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409082705
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 5 hr 30 min
  • Narrator: Jason Isaacs
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Case Histories

(Jackson Brodie)




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

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...

  • Published: 4 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409082705
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 5 hr 30 min
  • Narrator: Jason Isaacs
Categories:

About the author

Kate Atkinson

KATE ATKINSON is one of the world’s foremost novelists. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Life After Life, an acclaimed BBC TV series, won several prizes including the Costa Novel Award, as did A God in Ruins. Two further historical novels – Transcription and Shrines of Gaiety - were also Sunday Times bestsellers. She has published two critically acclaimed collections of short stories: Not the End of the World and Normal Rules Don’t Apply. Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog, became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie later returned in the novel Big Sky and the most recent, Death at the Sign of the Rook, was a number one bestseller. Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. For information about Kate’s books, including her Jackson Brodie series, visit www.kateatkinson.co.uk

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Praise for Case Histories

So well-written...Everyone who picks it up will feel compelled to follow it through to the last page.

Guardian

Her best book yet...a tragi-comedy for our times.'

Katie Owen, Sunday Telegraph

'A greedy feast of a story by a masterful author ... Will stay with you for a long time after you have finished reading it. '

Daily Express

'Civilised, funny, life-affirming and hugely enjoyable. I can't recall reading crime fiction quite like this before- honest, ironic, and cheerfully unselfconscious. I urge you to share my surprise and delight.'

Philip Oakes, Literary Review

One of the most brilliantly playful, witty and original writers we have.

Scotsman

'At heart a comic novelist, who explores the relationship between comedy and crime... In Case Histories, these skills have found their literary home.'

Heather O’Donoghue, Times Literary Supplement

'Sharp humour, together with a number of unexpected twists, make this a typically pacey and intelligent read.'

Daily Mail

Not just the best novel I have read this year...but the best mystery of the decade. There are actually four mysteries, nesting like Russian dolls, and when they begin to fit together, I defy any reader not to feel a combination of delight and amazement. Case Histories is the literary equivalent of a triple axel. I read it once for pleasure and then again just to see how it was done. This is the mind of book you shove in people's faces, saying 'You gotta read this!'

Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly