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| Title | : | One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie #2) |
| Author | : | Kate Atkinson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 418 pages |
| Published | : | September 10th 2007 by Back Bay Books (first published 2006) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. Cultural. Scotland |
Kate Atkinson
Paperback | Pages: 418 pages Rating: 3.81 | 30675 Users | 2857 Reviews
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It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - a near-homicidal attack which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a murder suspect.As the body count mounts, each member of the teeming Dickensian cast's story contains a kernel of the next, like a set of nesting Russian dolls. They are all looking for love or money or redemption or escape: but what each actually discovers is their own true self.
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| Original Title: | One Good Turn |
| ISBN: | 0316012823 (ISBN13: 9780316012829) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Jackson Brodie #2 |
| Characters: | Jackson Brodie |
| Setting: | Edinburgh, Scotland |
Rating Appertaining To Books One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie #2)
Ratings: 3.81 From 30675 Users | 2857 ReviewsAssessment Appertaining To Books One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie #2)
I remember a scolding from one of my high school English teachers to the effect that my classmates and I should only read books that made us better people and stop wasting our time with the other stuff. I'm not sure Atkinson's Jackson Brodie novels would rise to her standard. They're probably frustrating for mystery readers who value focused, logical plots and a clear sense of right and wrong in a novel, too. But I love these books. Atkinson's writing, her characters, and her observations of theONE GOOD TURN by Kate Atkinson begins with a road rage incident involving one crazy guy beating a man with a baseball bat and another man, a wimpy writer of popular crime novels, knocking the crazy guy down with his laptop computer. From there we meet all sorts of seemingly unrelated characters who all become connected.It's actually a pretty good and simple story. But here's what I guess happened.My guess is that Atkinson had a pretty good short story. Someone (publisher, editor, agent, whoever)
[3.6] On my vacation, I decided to pick up one of the Jackson Brodie novels I haven't yet read. This one is quite good - a slow starter - but as usual Kate Atkinson pulled together all the disparate strings. Very engaging but didn't reach the heights of #3 - "When Will There Be Good News."
They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion, it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces. After reading *Case Histories* and loving it, I got countless of recommendations that I continue on with the rest of the series (Thank you Paul) I loved it. Bored of reading the same plot-driven crime novels look no further This is a cool unique crime series book that has found a balance for character study and
Abandoned after 100 pages. The cover blurb reads, "The most fun I've had with a novel this year" - Ian Rankin. What I want to know is, what on earth was he *doing* with it?!
In this second of the Jackson Brodie series, Kate Atkinsons writing once again brings a fascinating cast of characters to our attention in a plot that has hidden links and connections on all fronts. I like how we discover so much about the characters in this novel. If there is more, beyond the usual 3-D for characters, then it is definitely found in this novel. In just a few sentences we receive a great deal of information about the characters, but Ms Atkinson doesnt stop there. As I became
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