ISBN: 9780385608015
Release Date: 14 Aug 2008
Average rating:   (read by 76 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison. In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for a G.P. But Dr Hunter has gone missing and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware that hurtling towards her is an old friend - Jackson Brodie - himself on a journey that becomes fatally interrupted.

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Bookangel2
Rated it   5 months ago
I thoroughly enjoyed this book; it was intriguing and although it took a while for the connections between characters and events to become clear, it only added to my interest. Kate Atkinson writes so well that I didn't want to put it down!

jgallinzx
Rated it   7 months ago
The ending to this book was totally unexpected and is an author I would definitely read again

fuschia
Rated it   8 months ago
I never read detective novels but I really enjoyed this. I ended up drawing a map of all the interconnections between people so that I got less confused by all the different stories. The main theme of the book I felt was the weird way in which totally...

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