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Language
  
English

Genre
  
Crime fiction

Media type
  
Print

Author
  
Kate Atkinson

Publisher
  
Doubleday

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Country
  
United Kingdom

Series
  
Jackson Brodie

Publication date
  
2004

Originally published
  
2004

Followed by
  
One Good Turn

Page count
  
304

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Characters
  
Jackson Brodie, Marlee Brodie, Julia Land, Josie Brodie, Deborah Arnold

Similar
  
Kate Atkinson books, Crime Fiction books

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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. Atkinson has since published three additional novels featuring Brodie: One Good Turn (2006), When Will There Be Good News? (2008) and Started Early, Took My Dog (2010).

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Reception

  • "An astonishingly complex and moving literary detective story." – The Guardian
  • "Case Histories is a triumphant return to form: a tragi-comedy for our times." – The Daily Telegraph
  • "A great read." – The Boston Globe
  • Stephen King considered it "the best mystery of the decade".
  • Atkinson "is less interested in detailing the steps of an investigation than in exploring the rough and tumble that happens along the way. Her humor -- and she is a very funny writer -- is the sort that comes from being able to see the way happiness and sadness can emerge from the same situation. Her reach is certainly long enough to touch cruelty and grief, but it also extends far in the opposite direction -- all the way to joy."

    • Adaptations

  • An abridged audiobook adaptation of the book was released, with Jason Isaacs narrating the book.
  • A three-part television adaptation of Atkinson's first three books in the Brodie series was produced for the BBC under the blanket title Case Histories (2011). It stars Jason Isaacs as Brodie. The adaptation of Case Histories itself was shown over consecutive nights on 5 June and 6 June 2011, followed by adaptations of One Good Turn (2006) and When Will There Be Good News? (2008) over the succeeding two weeks.

    • References

    Case Histories Wikipedia
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