When will there be good news?

a novel

English language

Published Nov. 14, 2008 by Little, Brown and Co..

ISBN:
978-0-316-15485-7
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4 stars (2 reviews)

On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever...On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost in his thoughts, he suddenly hears a shocking sound...At the end of a long day, 16-year-old Reggie is looking forward to watching a little TV. Then a terrifying noise shatters her peaceful evening. Luckily, Reggie makes it a point to be prepared for an emergency...These three lives come together in unexpected and deeply thrilling ways in the latest novel from Kate Atkinson, the critically acclaimed author who Harlan Coben calls "an absolute must-read."

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4 stars

I enjoyed the 3rd book in the Jackson Brodie series quite a bit. Not sure how to rank it, probably as good as number 2, but not as good as Case Stories? It's got all the same traits that I love from the other books. A wide range of PoVs about several criminal cases, all lives kind of interweaving. We have Jackson Brodie, who gets on the wrong train, crashes in it, nearly dies, and has his life completely falling apart within days. Reggie, a 16-year old orphan who saves Jackson, and has him hunt her surrogate mother Joanna Hunter. Said Joanna, who had a traumatic experience as a child and who disappears. Louise, the inspector, with marital woes, searching for Joanna, trying to protect a woman threatened by her husband.

I turned pages, and was baffled in parts. It's a slow book, yet there's so much going on, and …

Subjects

  • Missing persons -- Fiction
  • Physicians (General practice) -- Fiction
  • Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction