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One Good Turn: A Jolly Murder Mystery

by Kate Atkinson

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One Good Turn: A Jolly Murder Mystery

It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a suspect. With Case Histories , Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In One Good Turn , she takes her masterful plotting one step further. Like a set of Russian dolls each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last. Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ever with Atkinson what each one actually discovers is their true self. Unputdownable and triumphant, One Good Turn is a sharply intelligent read that is also percipient, funny, and totally satisfying.

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    One of my favourite books.

    If you read 'Case Histories', which introduced Jackson Brodie, you will love this novel. The writing is witty and threads of narrative are interwoven to keep the reader continually engaged.

    Review by Marisa of the Preston Borders on 2009-01-30 20:14:15

  • 3 out of 5
    Rankin knows his stuff

    Surprisingly, I read this book largely because of the recommendation from Ian Rankin on the cover. I'd never read any other Kate Atkinson books, thought she was more of a 'woman's author', I'm not a huge Crime fine. But the book was a pleasant surprise- well plotted, with several well-rounded characters- some obviously from earlier novels, but this didn't detract from this book, rather encouraged me to read more Kate Atkinson novels.

    Review by Paul Thornton on 14:04, 04 Apr 2008

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  • 4 out of 5
    One Good Turn

    I really enjoyed 'When will There Be Good News', and bought this straight afterwards. It's a pretty easy read, a comical thriller really. The humourous thoughts of the characters are great. Not quite as gripping, but a really good read.

    Review by sarah walker on 19:37, 21 Apr 2009

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ISBN

9780552772440

Published
December 16th 2006 by Transworld Publishers Ltd
Category
Modern Fiction
Number of pages
544
County of origin
UNITED KINGDOM

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