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.
Key facts about One Good Turn
Kate Atkinson wrote One Good Turn, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2006. The book has 418 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780316154840 to find the main one.
One Good Turn is book 2 of 6 in the Jackson Brodie series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with Case Histories (2004). 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
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