It's a picturesque setting, but there's something darker lurking behind the scenes. Kate Atkinsons Jackson Brodie novels, while involving crime, mysteries, disappearances and detectives, dont follow the typical plot-lines of many crime novels. Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village in North Yorkshire, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son Nathan and ageing Labrador Dido, both at the discretion of his former partner Julia. That one moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy's humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn. When Will There Be Good News?: (Jackson Brodie)Ī day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a shocking impulse purchase. Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware that hurtling towards her is a former acquaintance – Jackson Brodie – himself on a journey that becomes fatally interrupted. But her employer has disappeared with her baby, and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie, wise beyond her years, works as a nanny for a G.P. Started Early, Took My Dog: (Jackson Brodie) Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a murder suspect People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - a near-homicidal attack which changes the lives of everyone involved. It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival.
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. Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer.
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