by Kate Atkinson · ISBN 9780385608008
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«One Good Turn» is Kate Atkinson's mystery novel, published by Doubleday UK (400 pages, in English).
During the Edinburgh Festival, a road-rage incident in front of a queue for a show changes the lives of several witnesses. Jackson Brodie, former soldier, former police officer and former private detective, moves from bystander to suspect. The stories of those seeking love or money intertwine and end up revealing their true selves in unexpected places.
Subtitled 'A Jolly Murder Mystery', the novel was published in 2006 and features Jackson Brodie.
For readers of literary crime fiction who value ensemble plots and humour.
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.
