Jackson Brodie · Book 5
Big Sky
- Published
- 13 June 2019
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9781409043850
- Type
- novel

About this book
After Started Early, Took My Dog in 2010, Atkinson left a nine-year gap before Big Sky, published on 13 June 2019 at 400 pages -- by far the longest interval between any two books in the series.
Its place in Jackson Brodie
Big Sky is book 5 in the Jackson Brodie series. It follows Started Early, Took My Dog. It is followed by Death at the Sign of the Rook. See the full Jackson Brodie reading order.
Jackson Brodie is a former army policeman turned Cambridge CID detective turned semi-reluctant private investigator, drifting through a life of failed marriages, missing-persons cases and a nagging inability to stay retired. Kate Atkinson uses him less as a conventional detective-novel engine than as a connective thread through structurally daring, multi-stranded literary fiction: each book braids together several seemingly unrelated storylines and characters — old crimes, cold cases, coincidences that ripple…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780385691550
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781409043850