by Kate Atkinson · Circe Ediciones, S.L.U. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788477652649
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«Expedientes» is a crime novel by Kate Atkinson, published by Circe Ediciones in hardcover (392 pages, in Spanish).
In a stifling Cambridge, detective Jackson Brodie, ex-military and ex-police, investigates two old cases: a missing girl and a murdered young woman. As he progresses, his own personal wound surfaces. Atkinson blends thriller pace, psychological depth, tragedy and humor.
First installment of the Jackson Brodie series, originally published as «Case Histories». Finalist for the Orange Prize and winner of the Saltire Society Literary Award in 2005.
Will appeal to fans of crime fiction who value characters with a past, a university atmosphere and a tone that combines drama and humor.
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.
