Case Histories

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Doubleday Canada, Oct 12, 2010 - Fiction - 432 pages
Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, formar police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet—Lost on the left, Found on the right—and the two never seem to balance.

Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life haunted by a family tragendy, Jackson attempts to unravel three disparate case histories and begins to realize that in spite of apparent diversity, everything is connected…
 

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Contents

Section 1
15
Section 2
41
Section 3
71
Section 4
99
Section 5
123
Section 6
135
Section 7
149
Section 8
177
Section 15
305
Section 16
311
Section 17
327
Section 18
341
Section 19
353
Section 20
365
Section 21
387
Section 22
391

Section 9
193
Section 10
205
Section 11
237
Section 12
249
Section 13
271
Section 14
295
Section 23
395
Section 24
399
Section 25
413
Section 26
417
Section 27
427
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About the author (2010)

KATE ATKINSON won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her four bestselling novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie became the BBC television series Case Histories, starring Jason Isaacs. Her 2013 novel, Life After Life, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize and voted Book of the Year for the independent booksellers associations on both sides of the Atlantic. It also won the Costa Novel Award, as did her subsequent novel A God in Ruins (2015). She has written twelve ground-breaking, bestselling books and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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