Author: Atkinson, Kate Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 1 June 2005 by Transworld Publishers Ltd (Black Swan) in the United Kingdom as part of the Jackson Brodie series.Paperback | 432 pages198 x 129 x 28 | 296g 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. Its the sort of novel you have to start rereading the minute youve finished it GuardianCambridge 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...Kate Atkinson, Sunday Times bestseller, September 2024
