Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

by Kate Atkinson

Susan Jameson (Narrator)

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...

• ISBN10: 1600245005
• ISBN13: 9781600245008
• Publish Date: 1 September 2008 (first published 9 November 2004)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
• Imprint: Time Warner Audio Books
• Format: Audiobook (CD)
• Pages: 10
• Language: English

Reviews

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This was quite good. I liked how the cases intertwined, and the characters were interesting without being unbelievable.