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Case histories a novel

Atkinson, Kate (Author).

Summary: Jackson Brodie, a private investigator and former police detective, is quietly contemplating life as a divorced father when he is flung into the midst of three resurrected old crimes: a young child who mysteriously disappeared from a tent in her back garden; An unidentified man in a yellow jumper who marched into an office and slashed a young girl through the throat; and a young woman found by the police sitting in her kitchen next to the body of her husband, an axe buried in his head.

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  • ISBN: 9780316031639 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
  • ISBN: 0316031631 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resourc (399 p.)
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    electronic resource
  • Edition: 1st eBook ed.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Co., 2007.

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Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 318 KB).
Source of Description Note:
Title from eBook information screen.
Genre: Electronic books.
Psychological fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.

Electronic resources


  • Baker & Taylor
    Private detective Jackson Brodie finds his own need for resolution sparked by three investigations including those of two sisters who discover a shocking clue to the disappearance of their third sister thirty years earlier, a lawyer whose life is turned upside-down when his daughter joins the firm, and a woman whose past mistakes and demanding family life culminate in a violent escape. 30,000 first printing.
  • Grand Central Pub
    The first book in Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie Mysteries series, called "The best mystery of the decade" by Stephen King, finds private investigator Jackson Brodie following three seemingly unconnected family mysteries in Edinburg.

    Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night.

    Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack.

    Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making - with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband - until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.

    Thirty years after the first incident, as private investigator Jackson Brodie begins investigating all three cases, startling connections and discoveries emerge . . .
  • Hachette Book Group
    The first book in Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie mystery series, called "the best mystery of the decade" by Stephen King, finds private investigator Jackson Brodie following three seemingly unconnected family mysteries in Edinburgh


    Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night.

    Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack.

    Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making - with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband - until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.

    Thirty years after the first incident, as private investigator Jackson Brodie begins investigating all three cases, startling connections and discoveries emerge . . .
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