Jackson Brodie · Book 2
One Good Turn
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 418
- ISBN-13
- 9780316154840
- Type
- novel
About this book
One Good Turn arrived two years after Case Histories, in 2006, and runs to 418 pages -- the longest of the first four Jackson Brodie novels. Kate Atkinson continues her structurally daring approach here, braiding together several seemingly unrelated storylines that only resolve into a single picture near the end, with Jackson's own messy life, drifting through failed marriages and a nagging inability to stay retired, as much the subject as the case itself.
Its place in Jackson Brodie
One Good Turn is book 2 in the Jackson Brodie series. It follows Case Histories. It is followed by When Will There Be Good News?. 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 9780552772440
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316154840