by Kate Atkinson · PENGUIN RANDOMHOUSE INDIA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552776660
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«Big Sky» is the mystery novel by Kate Atkinson, published by Penguin Random House India in paperback (480 pages, in English).
Jackson Brodie has settled in a coastal Yorkshire town; hired to watch an unfaithful husband, the case complicates when he comes across a man on the edge of a cliff, leading him into a dangerous conspiracy and a reunion with someone from his past. A crime novel with literary depth, sharp humour and a melancholic tone.
Fifth instalment in the Jackson Brodie series (Jackson Brodie, 5); originally published in 2019 and this edition in 2020.
For those seeking a mystery read with literary quality, rather than a simple action thriller.
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.
