Jackson Brodie Series 5 Books Collection Set by Kate Atkinson

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They inform the other surviving sister, Sylvia, who is now living as a nun named Sister Mary Luke in a convent. Life isn’t tied up all neatly with a bow on top and I would imagine it’s quite rare when investigating crime. There is a lot of nostalgia for things as they used to be - again handled well and wittily by the author. It’s good to see a slightly more responsible Jackson, forging relationships with both of his children and staying in one place.

Thirty years later, Olivia’s sisters, Amelia and Julia, make a discovery that prompts them to hire a private detective. It's revealed later that he was in fact the person who murdered Laura after briefly becoming infatuated with her.Louise and Jackson never slept together, but Louise was the one that he mistakenly allowed to get away. Atkinson delivers past and present mysteries both centering on the murder of prostitutes, one in current time, one in 1975—and of course the “semi-retired” Jackson Brodie, who is unable to not get involved in cases, help people, find himself in trouble, and be constantly followed by coinquidinks! To be fair, though, I wasn't too annoyed in this book, thought it was a big, good, well told story, loved meeting Jackson again, and thought the book was a great read. This time we start two years after the end of the first novel, and Brodie is hanging around the Edinburgh festival where his girlfriend is in a terrible production.

From the first novel Case Histories to her long awaited fifth in the series Big Sky, we are let into the world of this slightly world weary PI. As well as the Jackson Brodie series, Kate has published various other novels, a play, and a collection of short stories. Tilly is an old woman who could have been a legendary actress, and she’s haunted by a lost child, a lost love, and old betrayals – and as cognitive decline sets in, her waking life is swamped by these intrusive scenes of the past. Brodie may solve the mystery at the heart of the book (or he may not), but he himself isn’t at the heart. Jackson couldn’t think of the names of any French golfers so that was a good sign because Jackson hated golf.The harsh realities of life in Jackson Brodie’s England are juxtaposed by a reckless, Dickensian sentimentality. Courtenay is a remarkable child, damaged, but full of surprises - so much so that Tracy wonders if Kelly perhaps might not have been Courtenay's mum.

Jackson has an extraordinarly happy ending (like Del Boy becoming a millionaire) - I wonder if the book was originally as a one off, and this was Jackson riding off into the distance. He’s an archetypal sleuth – troubled, with a messy past; he’s clever but gets into scrapes through his dogged determination to keep digging. She wasn’t a GP or a wife, she wasn’t Reggie’s employer (“and friend”), she wasn’t the woman that Louise was concerned about. In addition to his hunt for a killer and a long-vanished young girl, Brodie takes on another missing-persons case.

Julia and Amelia are eccentric opposites – Julia’s outrageous flirting adding to the humour of the book, contrasting with the awkward spinsterishness of her sister.

Jackson had never felt at home in Cambridge, never felt at home in the south of England if it came to that. Case Histories" is the first book in the private investigator Jackson Brodie series by Kate Atkinson.When we read four seemingly separate stories we suspect that all these stories will turn out to be connected. Jackson and Louise are attracted to each other - I guess we are meeting Julia's replacement in a later book. Jackson is essentially such a nice person going round, doing good and rescuing people quietly without fuss, and generally not only bending the law himself for the greater justice, but inspiring those around him to do the same. So, all in all, a good / very good book, an excellent storyline, at last a Kate Atkinson that I can recommend.