by Kate Atkinson · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9780385610766
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«One Good Turn: A Jolly Murder Mystery» is the mystery novel by Kate Atkinson, published in paperback.
During the Edinburgh Festival, several people queuing outside a theatre witness a road rage attack. Among them is Jackson Brodie, former soldier, police officer and private detective, who goes from bystander to suspect. While the police investigate, the stories of those involved become intertwined, revealing unexpected connections.
It is the second novel in the Jackson Brodie series, published in 2006. The paperback edition is from Transworld Publishers.
For readers of crime fiction and mystery who prefer ensemble plots and characters with a past rather than fast-paced action.
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.
