One Good Turn - Wyrms.de

Paperback, 526 pages

English language

Published Nov. 14, 2007 by Black Swan.

ISBN:: 978-0-552-77244-0

(1 review)

Awards BCA Crime Thriller of the Year Best Novel (nominee)

It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a suspect. With "Case Histories", Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In "One Good Turn", she takes her masterful plotting one step further. Like a set of Russian dolls, each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last. Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ever with Atkinson what each one actually discovers is their true self. Unputdownable and triumphant, "One Good Turn" is a sharply intelligent read that is also …

Awards BCA Crime Thriller of the Year Best Novel (nominee)

It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a suspect. With "Case Histories", Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In "One Good Turn", she takes her masterful plotting one step further. Like a set of Russian dolls, each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last. Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ever with Atkinson what each one actually discovers is their true self. Unputdownable and triumphant, "One Good Turn" is a sharply intelligent read that is also percipient, funny, and totally satisfying.

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Kadomi reviewed One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson

Review of 'One Good Turn' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Not as good as Case Histories, but still definitely right down my alley. The author likes to have a good amount of seemingly unrelated characters plus Jackson Brodie and their points of view, lets us know the characters and their backstories, and then weave them all together. The setting is Edinburgh during the festival, and it's all a bit crazy.

I hope we get to meet Louise again! And Gloria!

Have to say, did not see that end coming as it did. Those last few lines, dang.