Case Histories
por Atkinson, Kate
- Usado
- Perto de Excelente
- Capa dura
- Assinado
- first
- Condição
- Perto de Excelente/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316740403
- ISBN 13
- 9780316740401
- Livreiro
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Neenah, Wisconsin, United States
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Sobre este item
New York: Little, Brown & Co, 2004. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Signed on title page. Stated First American Edition with full number line.
Sinopse
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. Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making - with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband - until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.Thirty years after the first incident, as private investigator Jackson Brodie begins investigating all three cases, startling connections and discoveries emerge . . .
Avaliações
Em Jul 27 2013, CloggieDownunder disse:
Case Histories is the first book in the Jackson Brodie series by popular British author, Kate Atkinson. The background facts on several unrelated cases are presented: the disappearance of a toddler thirty-four years previous; the slaying by knife in broad daylight of a solicitor’s daughter ten years ago; the disappearance of a daughter whose mother went to jail for the murder of her father twenty-five years before; an old woman who is convinced her black cats are being abducted. PI Jackson Brodie, ex-Military Police, ex-cop, is the link between all these disparate cases. But as Jackson investigates, the lines dividing the cases begin to blur and people left behind enter each other’s stories. And it seems Jackson has an unsolved case in his own past as well. Atkinson’s format may deter some readers, as the three cases in the first chapters seem both unrelated and unfinished, but persistence is rewarded with an excellent mystery/drama that will leave the reader eager for more. Atkinson has a wonderful way with words and some of her passages are superbly evocative: “Right up until the end Victor’s mind had been as methodical as an efficient library, whereas Amelia felt hers was more like the cupboard under the stair where ancient hockey sticks were shoved beside broken hoovers and boxes of old Christmas decorations, and the one thing you knew was in there – a 5-amp fuse, a tin of tan shoe polish, a Philips screwdriver – would almost certainly be the one thing you couldn’t lay your hands on.” and vividly descriptive: “Her mad hair looked as if it had been groomed by a troupe of circus dogs.” Jackson is a very likeable character, flawed, but trying to do the right thing. Other characters are recognisable as people we encounter in our everyday lives: eccentric old women, homeless waifs, fat geezers, precocious young girls. There may be no classic denouement, but this is nonetheless a clever and funny detective story.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Lyons Fine Books (US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 15183
- Título
- Case Histories
- Autor
- Atkinson, Kate
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Perto de Excelente
- Condição de sobrecapa
- near fine
- Quantidade Disponível
- 2
- Edição
- First American Edition, 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0316740403
- ISBN 13
- 9780316740401
- Editorial
- Little, Brown & Co
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 2004
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