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by: Kate Atkinson
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780316010702
ISBN: 0316010707
Label: Back Bay Books
Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: October 17, 2005
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Sales Rank: 35321
Studio: Back Bay Books
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Product Description:
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 . . .
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A read-again book
I am a huge reader. When I was a child I would close a good book and immediately start it again. I haven't done this for 30 years until this book.
The first time through, I read it for the pure joy of good storytelling. I went straight back to the beginning to see how she did it! It is that good.
Rating:  - prozac should be included with this book
it is tedious and depressing. there is not one normal person described and all the families are dysfunctional and unhappy. save your money. this book serves only for kindling the fireplace!
Rating:  - Starts out promising, but...
I, too, was drawn to this book because of the lavish praise on the cover. The crimes are interesting, as is Jackson's life. But, the rest of the characters are unlikeable and awkward. The author uses a lot more crude language and sexual reference than is necessary. The lesbian scene at the end was just gross and I really wish I could retract it from my memory.
Rating: - More of Jackson, please...
Set in Cambridge, England, "Case Histories", by award winning author Kate Atkinson is a well done series of character studies, accompanied by a mystery that threads its way through each of three cases brought to Jackson Brodie.
Brodie's an everyman private eye, who is handed some cold cases through a variety of circumstance -- he's compelling as a flawed hero, and gives us a mix of plot twists, all held together by probably too much coincidence. Still, the book, told from several ... Read More
Rating: - Hard to put down
I loved this book. If you like mysteries and insightful reading you will love this.
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