![]() ![]() ![]() That Brodie continues his investigations in the company of his young daughter is the part of the novel that is hardest to swallow. ![]() The sister of the woman who killed her husband wants to find that woman's daughter, adopted by someone else after the murder.Īs if this isn't enough of a caseload to deal with at one time, someone is trying to kill Jackson Brodie by such means as sabotaging his car and blowing up his house. A still-grieving father wants to know who killed his daughter. ![]() Two of the surviving sisters want to know what happened to their missing sibling. Years pass before Brodie, a former police officer now working as a private investigator, is hired by three different people to look into all three cases. A depressed young mother kills her husband with an ax. A young woman is slashed to death on her first day working at her father's law office. A married couple who don't deserve to have any children nevertheless have four daughters, the youngest of which disappears one summer night. This itself is unusual for a mystery novel. This helps explain why the book is so sensational.Ītkinson begins with three "case histories," each separated by time and space. Kate Atkinson breaks all the rules for murder mysteries in “Case Histories,” her 2004 novel that introduced Jackson Brodie. ![]()
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