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Kirkus Reviews found this novel revealing the talent Kate Atkinson showed in her first award-winning novel, “back on form” with this story. Brodie meets some people who reclaim his help to solve their cases 'Case Histories' tells the story of Jackson Brodie, a private investigator who tries to find out the truth of some cases. In addition to her structural inventiveness, Atkinson is celebrated for writing literary detective stories (the hugely successful Jackson Brodie series) and popular literary fiction (from her. Jackson Brodie is drawn into the lives of those who seek to understand the past. Case Histories has been described as Atkinson's breakthrough, and she has since published four additional novels featuring Brodie: One Good Turn (2006), When Will There Be Good News? (2008), Started Early, Took My Dog (2010) and Big Sky (2019). A former soldier and policeman he now makes his money working from. The plot revolves around three seemingly unconnected family tragedies – the disappearance of a three-year-old girl from a garden the murder of a husband by his wife with an axe and the apparently motiveless murder of a solicitor's daughter. Jackson Brodie is a private investigator, originally from Yorkshire, who lives in Edinburgh to be near his daughter, Marlee. It introduces Jackson Brodie, a former police inspector and now private investigator. Case Histories (2004) is a detective novel by British author Kate Atkinson and is set in Cambridge, England. The four novels in The Jackson Brodie series are: Case Histories in 2004, One Good Turn in 2006, When Will There Be Good News in 2008 and lastly, Started Early.
