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Case Histories
First edition cover
AuthorKate Atkinson
LanguageEnglish
SeriesJackson Brodie
GenreCrime fiction
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
2004
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Pages304
ISBN978-0-385-60799-5
OCLC491944628
Followed byOne Good Turn (2006) 

Case Histories (2004) is a detective novel by British author Kate Atkinson and is set in Cambridge, England. It introduces Jackson Brodie, a former police inspector and now private investigator. 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. Case Histories has been described as Atkinson's breakthrough,[1] 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).

Plot

'Case Histories' tells the story of Jackson Brodie, a private investigator who tries to find out the truth of some cases. Brodie meets some people who reclaims his help to solve their cases

Reviews

Kirkus Reviews found this novel revealing the talent Kate Atkinson showed in her first award-winning novel, “back on form”[2] with this story. Atkinson is “a gripping storyteller”.[2] This is a “compulsive page-turner that looks deep into the heart of sadness, cruelty, and loss,” which “ultimately grants her charming p.i. ... a chance at happiness and some measure of reconciliation with the past.”[2]

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References

  1. ^ Sacks, Sam (2013-04-01). "Déjà Vu All Over Again". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-08-17.
  2. ^ a b c "Case Histories, Review". Kirkus Reviews. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Case Histories". BBC television. Retrieved 12 June 2019.