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One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie) (Jackson Brodie, 2)

One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie) (Jackson Brodie, 2)

by KateAtkinson (Author), Kate Atkinson (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

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Synopsis

It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident 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 suspect. With Case Histories, Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In One Good Turn she takes her masterful plotting one step further. Like a set of Russian dolls each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last. Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ever with Atkinson what each one actually discovers is their true self. Unputdownable and triumphant, One Good Turn is a sharply intelligent read that is also percipient, funny, and totally satisfying.

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Format: paperback
 Publisher: Black Swan
Published:
ISBN 10: 0552772445
ISBN 13: 9780552772440
Book Overview: The second Jackson Brodie novel (after Case Histories) - literary crime from the number one bestselling Kate Atkinson.
 Prizes: Shortlisted for British Book Awards: Crime Thriller of the Year 2007.

Media Reviews
An absolute joy to read...the pleasure of One Good Turn lies in the ride, in Atkinson's wry, unvanquished characters, her swooping, savvy, sarcastic prose and authorial joie de vivre. * Guardian *
Atkinson is frequently very funny...while the tone stays light, the plot continues to darken....manages to be that rarest of things - a good literary novel and a cracking holiday read * Observer *
Atkinson, while having fun with the murder-mystery genre, slyly slips us a muted tragedy * Sunday Telegraph *
One Good Turn is the most fun I've had with a novel this year -- IAN RANKIN * Guardian *
Thrillingly addictive...In One Good Turn Atkinson proves quite unique in her ability to fuse emotional drama and thriller...Imagine a Richard Curtis film scripted by Raymond Chandler, both a little enlivened by the collaboration...The mix is embodied by Brodie. Like all good detectives, he is a hero for men and women alike * The Times *
Author Bio
Kate Atkinson won the Costa (formerly the Whitbread) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her bestselling novels include the four featuring former detective Jackson Brodie which became the BBC television series Case Histories, starring Jason Isaacs. Her 2013 novel Life After Life spent a record number of weeks on top of the bestsellers lists on both sides of the Atlantic, and won the South Bank Sky Arts Literature Prize and the Costa Novel Award, a prize Kate Atkinson won again in 2015 for A God in Ruins. Her new novel Transcription comes out in September 2018.