by Kate Atkinson · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781804994528
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«Death at the Sign of the Rook» is the mystery novel by Kate Atkinson, published by Penguin in paperback (384 pages, in English).
Former detective Jackson Brodie investigates the theft of a painting in Yorkshire, but the case becomes complicated with the disappearance of a valuable Turner from Burton Makepeace, a manor house that hosts mystery weekends. A vicar, a former soldier and ruined aristocrats become involved in a plot that pays homage to Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
It is the sixth novel in the Jackson Brodie series and was published in 2025.
For readers of mystery and crime, fans of Jackson Brodie and country-house puzzles in the style of Agatha Christie.
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.
