by Kate Atkinson · Black Swan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552772433
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«Case Histories» is the crime novel by Kate Atkinson, published by Black Swan in paperback (432 pages, in English).
Jackson Brodie, former policeman and private detective in Cambridge, investigates three old cases: a girl who disappeared from a tent, a young woman slashed to death by a stranger, and a woman found beside her husband's corpse. While he seeks the connection between them, someone follows him and his ex-wife wants to take their daughter to New Zealand.
First installment of the Jackson Brodie series, published in 2005. Winner of the Saltire Society Literary Award and nominated for the Orange Prize.
Aimed at the general public, especially those interested in mystery and crime fiction.
Kate Atkinson is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She has written historical novels, detective novels and family novels, incorporating postmodern and magical realist elements into the plots. Her debut, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book Award, the precursor to the Costa Book Award, in 1995. The novels Life After Life and A God in Ruins won the Costa Book Award for novel in 2013 and 2015. She is also known for the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series, Case Histories.
