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I love Kate Atkinson and I particularly love her Jackson Brodie series.A series of seemingly unrelated incidents draw the retired Jackson into a tangled web, earning him his first criminal conviction, and galvanising him into action.An excellent read.
ONE GOOD TURN by Kate Atkinson begins with a road rage incident involving one crazy guy beating a man with a baseball bat and another man, a wimpy writer of popular crime novels, knocking the crazy guy down with his laptop computer. From there we meet all sorts of seemingly unrelated characters who all become connected.It's actually a pretty good and simple story. But here's what I guess happened.My guess is that Atkinson had a pretty good short story. Someone (publisher, editor, agent, whoever)...
Ex-detective, ex-army, ex-PI, Jackson Brodie is now enjoying living off his unexpected inheritance in France. Julia, his girlfriend, visits often from the UK and they have enjoyed traveling together but she is still pursuing an acting career and seemingly not interested in a more permanent relationship. Jackson is in Edinburgh, accompanying Julia to the Edinburgh Festival where she has a part in an avant-garde production in the Fringe. Queuing to get into a venue Jackson (and many others) witnes...
5★“Somehow it seemed unlikely it was a coincidence. What had Jackson said? A coincidence is just an explanation waiting to happen.”Kate Atkinson is one of my favourite writers, and the quote above describes the nature of her Jackson Brodie mysteries. There are seemingly random incidents and events involving separate characters around whom Atkinson builds back stories. Not for every character, but for the ones we’re going to become interested in, even if we don’t know why.Jackson is in Edinburgh
