by Kate Atkinson · Black Swan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552772457
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«When Will There Be Good News?» is Kate Atkinson's crime novel, published by Black Swan in paperback (480 pages, in English).
A girl witnesses a crime in the Devon countryside and, thirty years later, the convicted man is released from prison. In Edinburgh, Reggie, a sixteen-year-old nanny, searches for her missing employer with her baby, while Chief Inspector Louise Monroe investigates another disappearance unaware that Jackson Brodie, a former policeman, is approaching her on a journey that will end tragically for all.
Third installment in the Jackson Brodie series, winner of the British Book Award for best read of 2009.
For readers of literary crime fiction who appreciate suspenseful plots with well-drawn characters and an ironic tone.
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.
