 First edition cover | |
| Author | Kate Atkinson |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Jackson Brodie |
| Genre | Crime fiction |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 2004 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 978-0-385-60799-5 |
| OCLC | 491944628 |
| Followed by | One Good Turn (2006) |
Case Histories (2004) is a detective novel by British author Kate Atkinson and is set in Cambridge, England. It introduces Jackson Brodie, a former police inspector and now private investigator. The plot revolves around three seemingly unconnected family tragedies – the disappearance of a three-year-old girl from a garden; the murder of a husband by his wife with an axe; and the apparently motiveless murder of a solicitor's daughter. Case Histories has been described as Atkinson's breakthrough,[1] and she has since published five additional novels featuring Brodie: One Good Turn (2006), When Will There Be Good News? (2008), Started Early, Took My Dog (2010), Big Sky (2019) and Death at the Sign of the Rook (2024).
- ^ Sacks, Sam (1 April 2013). "Déjà Vu All Over Again". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 17 August 2020.