Jackson Brodie · Book 1
Case Histories
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9780385607995
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 2004, Case Histories opens the Jackson Brodie series and, at 368 pages, introduces the former policeman turned private investigator whose personal life will thread through the five books that follow.
Its place in Jackson Brodie
Case Histories is book 1 in the Jackson Brodie series. It is followed by One Good Turn. 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 9780385607995