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.
Key facts about Case Histories
Kate Atkinson wrote Case Histories, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2004. The book has 368 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780385607995 to find the main one.
Case Histories is book 1 of 6 in the Jackson Brodie series. The series has 6 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. Death at the Sign of the Rook is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 5 September 2024.
That series sits on our literary crime shelf. Meanwhile, Death at the Sign of the Rook is the latest published Kate Atkinson book on file, from 5 September 2024.
About Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson is a British novelist who moves between literary fiction and crime writing, best known within the mystery genre for the Jackson Brodie series, which follows a former police detective turned private investigator through cases that unfold with the structural playfulness and interest in coincidence and fate more typical of Atkinson's literary novels than conventional crime fiction. See every Kate Atkinson book in order.
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