British · b. 1951
Kate Atkinson is an acclaimed British novelist known for her inventive literary fiction and the Jackson Brodie crime series, author of Life After Life and Behind the Scenes at the Museum.
Kate Atkinson announced herself with the Whitbread (Costa) Book of the Year–winning debut Behind the Scenes at the Museum and has since moved fluidly between literary fiction and crime.
Her inventive novel Life After Life, in which a woman lives her twentieth-century life over and over, won wide acclaim, as did its companion A God in Ruins. Her Jackson Brodie novels, beginning with Case Histories, brought literary depth and structural ingenuity to the detective genre.
Atkinson is admired for her wit, narrative inventiveness, and ability to combine page-turning storytelling with genuine literary substance.
by Kate Atkinson
The first of Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie novels. Private investigator Jackson Brodie takes on three apparently unconnected cold cases — a missing child, a murdered young woman, an act of family violence — in a literary mystery that braids grief, coincidence, and dark comedy.
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