I have been a huge Kate Atkinson fan since "Life after Life", and so it was that I picked up this older title full of expectation. I wasn't disappointed!! Case Histories is exactly that: the history of 3 cases of retired police inspector turned private investigator Jackson Brodie. Thirty years after incident of the first... Continue Reading →
Case Histories or An Introduction to Jackson Brodie
Kate Atkinson begins her novel "Case Histories" with three very different crimes; a little girl stolen from a tent in her backyard in 1970, a young woman murdered by a random assailant during her first day at an office and a domestic crime in which a postpartum mother takes an axe to her husband's head.... Continue Reading →