Deze serie volgt de complexe onderzoeken van een voormalige politieagent, nu een privédetective, die zich een weg baant door zaken in heel het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Met de nadruk op menselijke relaties en het verleden dat nooit helemaal begraven blijft, bieden de verhalen diepgaande inzichten in de menselijke psyche. De protagonist bevindt zich vaak in moreel ambigue situaties, waarin hij niet alleen geconfronteerd wordt met misdaad, maar ook met zijn eigen innerlijke demonen. Het is een meeslepende lectuur voor fans van detectiveverhalen met een sterk psychologisch element.
In #1 of series, Jackson Brodie PI follows three 30-years cold, unconnected Cambridge family cases: 1 A little girl disappears in the night. 2 A beautiful young office worker falls to a maniac's attack. 3 A new mother is overwhelmed by demands from her baby and husband - until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.Result : Startling connections and discoveries emerge. . . .
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.
Three lives come together in unexpected and deeply thrilling ways in the latest novel from Kate Atkinson, the critically acclaimed author whom Harlan Coben calls "an absolute must-read."
A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a purchase she hadn’t bargained for. One moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy’s humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn
A BRILLIANT NEW LITERARY CRIME NOVEL FROM NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER KATE ATKINSON- JACKSON BRODIE MAKES A HIGLY ANTICIPATED RETURN Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an ageing Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia. It's picturesque, but there's something darker lurking behind the scenes. Jackson's current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for his suspicious wife, is fairly standard-issue, but a chance encounter with a desperate man on a crumbling cliff leads him into a sinister network-and back across the path of someone from his past. Old secrets and new lies intersect in this breathtaking novel by one of the most dazzling and surprising writers at work today.