Featuring the popular protagonist Jackson Brodie from Atkinson's last bestselling novel, }Case Histories{, this is a superior detective story with a cast of unusual characters. }Case Histories{ sold over 300,000 copies in paperback, and her first novel }Behind The Scenes At The Museum{ won the Whitbread Book Of The Year Award. 'Atkinson, while having fun with the murder- mystery genre, slyly slips us a muted tragedy.' }Sunday Telegraph 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.
