ONE GOOD TURN
Kate Atkinson
‘Very funny . . .
that rarest of things – a good literary novel and a cracking
holiday read’
Observer
It is summer, it
is the Edinburgh festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show
witness a road-rage incident – a near-homicidal attack which
changes the lives of everyone involved: the wife of an unscrupulous
property developer, a crime writer, a washed-up comedian. Jackson
Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an
innocent bystander – until he becomes a murder
suspect.
Stephen King
called Case Histories
‘the best mystery of the decade’: One Good Turn sees
the return of its irresistible hero Jackson Brodie. As the body
count mounts, each character’s story contains a kernel of the next,
like a set of nesting Russian dolls. Everyone in the teeming
Dickensian cast is looking for love or money or redemption or
escape: but what each actually discovers is their own true
self.
‘The most fun
I’ve had with a novel this year’
Ian Rankin,
Guardian (Books of the Year)
‘Delivers
everything a good book should have. It’s a fantastic detective
story and a wonderful piece of writing . . . has taken the crime
genre to another level’
Daily Express
‘Thrillingly
addictive . . . quite unique in her ability to fuse emotional drama
and thriller’
The Times
‘A detective
novel packed with more wit, insight and subtlety than an entire
shelf-full of literary fiction’
Marie Claire
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