Jackson Brodie · Book 3
When Will There Be Good News?
- Published
- 1 January 2008
- Pages
- 388
- ISBN-13
- 9780316039796
- Type
- novel

About this book
Kate Atkinson followed One Good Turn with When Will There Be Good News, published in 2008 at 388 pages, continuing the run of Jackson Brodie novels she had put out roughly every two years since 2004.
Its place in Jackson Brodie
When Will There Be Good News? is book 3 in the Jackson Brodie series. It follows One Good Turn. It is followed by Started Early, Took My Dog. 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 9780316012836
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316039796