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Case Histories

The first book in the Jackson Brodie series from the bestselling author

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Case Histories

Yazan: Kate Atkinson
Seslendiren: Susan Jameson
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The first Jackson Brodie novel: literary crime from the prizewinning, number-one bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription.

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...

'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

© Kate Atkinson 2004 (P) Penguin Audio 2014

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Her best book yet, 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
Sharp humour, together with a number of unexpected twists makes this a typically pacey and intelligent read
A greedy feast of a story by a masterful author...A profound, exciting and lingering read
Triumphant...Her best book yet...A tragi-comedy for our times
To read it is to enter a hall of mirrors...Part complex family drama, part mystery, it winds up having more depth and vividness than ordinary thrillers and more thrills than ordinary fiction...A wonderfully tricky book
As satisfying as anything dreamed up by Raymond Chandler, but the beauty of the novel lies in its spot-on characterizations, pitch perfect observations of contemporary culture and a sharp, wisecracking narrative voice
Shot through with sharp, black humour, and introducing a loveable hero in Brodie, this is storytelling that satisfies at every level
Atkinson is very good indeed... more satisfying than many detective novels. Everyone who picks it up will feel compelled to follow it through to the last page
Brilliantly playful, witty and original... massive and consistent talent for comedy
Intriguing and affecting... she has also created a compelling central chracter in world-weary private investigator Jackson Brodie, who is determined to bring justice to all the lives that lie fractured around him
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I don't think I've ever listened to a better narrated book. Susan Jameson does an excellent job, unlike anything I've heard before.

Regards the story, there are three parallel stories loosely interwoven via the private detective Jackson Brodie. But the chapters are all from different perspectives of the various characters, so you get to know much more of their individual thoughts and feelings this way.

Nearly everything is wrapped up at the end, but I still have some questions I want answering, so am looking forward to discussing this with my book group in a couple of weeks!

Fantastic narration

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Struggled to follow for the first few chapters, partly the amount of characters and stories and skipping around in time, would have probably been easier to read. However once I got my head round who was who I enjoyed the story and got really into the mystery and finished it quickly. Not groundbreaking but was entertaining and will dip into the rest of the series when I fancy something a bit light but that also keeps you intrigued .

Pretty good but found it hard to get into

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Kate Atkinson is an amazing storyteller, intertwining stories with ease. Narration too plummy, slightly irritating.

Genius storyteller

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This is the first book of Kate Atkinson that I've read and I enjoyed it enough to try a second, after all, she came highly recommended. But this one was far too disjointed, it probably would have been better if the author had stuck to 3separate short stories instead of jumping around totally unconnected accounts. Let's see what the next one is like.......

Puzzling

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Atkinson is very adept at balancing the nuts and bolts of a mystery with some lovely writing. I thoroughly enjoyed this, and will definitely return to her books in future.

Nice cosy mystery.

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