Jackson Brodie Series by Kate Atkinson

3.90 · 165 ratings
  • Case Histories (Jackson Brodie #1)
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    Case Histories (Jackson Brodie #1)

    Kate Atkinson

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings · published 2004

    The first book in Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie Mysteries series, called "The best mystery of the decade" by Stephen King, finds private investigator Jackson Brodie following three seemingly unconnected family mysteries in Cambridge. Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night. Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack... more

  • One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie #2)
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    One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie #2)

    Kate Atkinson

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings · published 2006

    It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - a near-homicidal attack 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 murder suspect. As the body count mounts, each member of the teeming Dickensian cast's story contains a kernel of the next, like a set of nesting Russian dolls... more

  • When Will There Be Good News? (Jackson Brodie #3)
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    When Will There Be Good News? (Jackson Brodie #3)

    Kate Atkinson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings · published 2008

    Three lives come together in unexpected and thrilling ways in Kate Atkinson's When Will There Be Good News?On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever...On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost in his thoughts, he suddenly hears a shocking sound.. more

  • One Good Turn / Case Histories/  When Will There Be Good News? (Jackson Brodie #1-3)
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    One Good Turn / Case Histories/ When Will There Be Good News? (Jackson Brodie #1-3)

    Kate Atkinson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2011

    This box set contains three of Kate Atkinson's bestselling books, now dramatised for the BBC as Case Histories and starring Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie.Case Histories: Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - Lost on the left, Found on the right - and the two never seem to balance... more

  • Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie #4)
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    Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie #4)

    Kate Atkinson

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings · published 2010

    Tracy Waterhouse leads a quiet, ordered life as a retired police detective - a life that takes a surprising turn when she encounters Kelly Cross, a habitual offender, dragging a young child through town. Both appear miserable and better off without each other - or so decides Tracy, in a snap decision that surprises herself as much as Kelly... more

  • Jackson Brodie 4-Book Bundle (Jackson Brodie #1-4)
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    Jackson Brodie 4-Book Bundle (Jackson Brodie #1-4)

    Kate Atkinson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2012

    Jackson Brodie is a private investigator in Cambridge. A former soldier and policeman, he makes his money working from investigating infidelity and finding missing cats. But Jackson's tough-guy exterior belies a deeply empathetic heart. He's unable to resist coming to the rescue and increasingly he becomes a magnet for the bereaved, the lost and the dysfunctional... more

  • Big Sky (Jackson Brodie #5)
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    Big Sky (Jackson Brodie #5)

    Kate Atkinson

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings · published 2019

    Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia. It's picturesque, but there's something darker lurking behind the scenes... more

  • Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie #6)
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    Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie #6)

    Kate Atkinson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2024

    The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characters and a setting that even Agatha Christie might recognize – a vicar, an Army major, a Dowager, a sleuth and his sidekick - except that the sleuth is Jackson Brodie, and the ‘sidekick’ is DC Reggie Chase.The crumbling house - Burton Makepeace and its chatelaine the Dowager Lady Milton - suffered the loss of their last remaining painting of any value, a Turner, some years ago... more

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