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One Good Turn

By Kate Atkinson

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| Hardcover | 9780385608008

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A brilliant new thriller from the author of 2005's breakout favorite, Case Histories, again featuring the irresistibly reluctant detective Jackson Brodie. Two years after the events of Case Histories left him a retired millionaire, former detective Jackson Brodie has followed Julia, his occasional gContinue

A brilliant new thriller from the author of 2005's breakout favorite, Case Histories, again featuring the irresistibly reluctant detective Jackson Brodie. Two years after the events of Case Histories left him a retired millionaire, former detective Jackson Brodie has followed Julia, his occasional girlfriend and former client, to Edinburgh for its famous summer arts festival. But when he watches a man brutally attacked in a traffic jam--the apparent victim of an extreme case of road rage--a chain of events is set in motion that will pull the wife of an unscrupulous real estate tycoon, a timid but successful crime novelist, and a hardheaded female police detective into Jackson's orbit. Suddenly out of retirement, Brodie is once again in the midst of several mysteries that intersect in one giant and sinister scheme. A triumphant novel filled with wit and surprise and intrigue, ONE GOOD TURN will delight the many fans who applauded Kate Atkinson's first foray into thrillers, and it will win her even more devoted readers as she continues to blur the boundaries that divide literary and crime fiction.

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  • Beyond the fringe

    One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson 396pp, Doubleday, £17.99 Once best known for her Whitbread award-winning first novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Kate Atkinson followed up three playful, picaresque family sagas with her hugely successful crime sor ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Unusual Suspects

    Martin Canning seems harmless. Fifty years old and never married, the author of a toothless mystery series about a girl detective named Nina Riley, he owns a Victorian house in Edinburgh that’s as snug as the bear’s hearth on a Sleepytime tea box. Ma ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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  • 2 people find this helpful

    «Jackson didn't like change, he liked to think things could stay the same for ever. Change was insidious, creeping up on you as if it was playing a game of statues.»

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    Claire N. said on Jun 7, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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    How does Kate Atkinson do this? She takes three different genres -literary, detective and humorous fiction - puts them in a bag, shakes them together and ends up with a book you can neither classify nor put down.

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    Lunarossa said on May 18, 2011 | Add your feedback

  • For a good 100 pages I was wondering what was going to happen as all characters had already been described in good detail, then something happened and I couldn't stop reading. I liked the descriptions and the story, even though I was shocked in two specific parts of it.

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    PJ Daphne said on Oct 30, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Someone said it is much more than a crime novel and I agree, yet I found it in some parts boring and the plot is highly predictable... Disappointing

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    kaina said on Jun 30, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • One Good Turn

    A Jolly Murder Mystery is the subtitle of this latest enjoyable novel from Kate Atkinson. This is so much more than a crime novel and in my opinion it is wrong to see it as belonging to this genre.

    The author is an expert at weaving complicated tales and ‘One Good Turn’ is no exception. Taking ... (continue)

    A Jolly Murder Mystery is the subtitle of this latest enjoyable novel from Kate Atkinson. This is so much more than a crime novel and in my opinion it is wrong to see it as belonging to this genre.

    The author is an expert at weaving complicated tales and ‘One Good Turn’ is no exception. Taking place over just four days the action is fast and furious. At first I found it difficult to keep track of both the characters and the situations as they were introduced. The fairly large cast of characters and the incidents described initially appear to be unrelated but a gradual disclosure of information shows that they are all linked. Coincidence upon coincidence, incident upon incident which all seem to stack together like the Russian Stacking Dolls that keep appearing, along with the witty style of writing should keep you guessing.

    To some readers it may seem that these coincidences are highly improbable! Let’s remember though that this is a novel for our entertainment that sets out to amuse. I think very successfully.

    The plots and twists along the way all come together in an ending that certainly took me by surprise!

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    Lindyloumac said on Aug 28, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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