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Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
HTML:On a beautiful summer day, crowds lined up outside a theater witness a sudden act of extreme road rage: a tap on a fender triggers a nearly homicidal attack. Jackson Brodie, ex-cop, ex-private detective, new millionaire, is among the bystanders. The event thrusts Jackson into the orbit of the wife of an unscrupulous real estate tycoon, a washed-up comedian, a successful crime novelist, a mysterious Russian woman, and a female police detective. Each of them hiding a secret, each looking for love or money or redemption or escape, they all play a role in driving Jackson out of retirement and into the middle of several mysteries that intersect in one sinister scheme. Kate Atkinson "writes such fluid, sparkling prose that an ingenious plot almost seems too much to ask, but we get it anyway," writes Laura Miller for Salon. With a keen eye for the excesses of modern life, a warm understanding of the frailties of the human heart, and a genius for plots that turn and twist, Atkinson has written a novel that delights and surprises from the first page to the last.… (más)
charl08: Both novels have a strong sense of place as they describe crimes that are not straightforward, and involve complex characters, challenging 'crime' genre.
Kate Atkinson enfrenta a Jackson Brodie, ex militar, ex policía y ex detective privado, a un caso en el que será algo más que observador. Y es que, en esta ocasión, Jackson se verá convertido nada menos que en sospechoso de asesinato.
En pleno festival de Edimburgo, algo perturba durante un instante la pacífica calma de una cola que espera entrar en un espectáculo. El topetazo de dos coches, en apariencia accidental, desemboca en una brutal agresión que toma un giro inesperado cuando uno de los ciudadanos de la cola interviene en defensa de la víctima. Será el desencadenante de una serie de acontecimientos enlazados entre sí, contenidos unos en otros como matrioshkas rusas, esas muñecas que siempre tienen otra más pequeña en su interior..., hasta llegar al núcleo de la intriga.Una vez más, Kate Atkinson enfrenta a Jackson Brodie, ex militar, ex policía y ex detective privado, a un caso en el que será algo más que observador. Y es que, en esta ocasión, Jackson se verá convertido nada menos que en sospechoso de asesinato.
Provocative, entertaining and beautifully written. It’s not quite the tour de force that her Case Histories (2004) was, but this latest affords the happy sight of seeing Atkinson stretch out into speculative territory again.
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Male parta, male dilabuntun (Wat oneervol is verkregen, wordt oneervol verkwist.) Cicero, Philippicae, 11, 27
Dedicatoria
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Voor Debbie, Glynis, Judith, Lynn, Penny, Sheila en Tessa. Voor hoe we waren en voor hoe we zijn
Primeras palabras
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He was lost. He wasn't used to being lost.
Citas
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Every day was a gift, she told herself, that was why it was called the present.
He knew he would have to do something proactive, he was not a person to whom things simply happened. His life had been lived in some kind of neutral gear, he had never broken a limb, never been stung by a bee, never been close to love or death. He had never strived for greatness, and his reward had been a small life.
The matronly cashmere seemed to confirm something that Gloria had suspected for some time, that she had gone straight from youth to old age and had somehow managed to omit the good bit in between.
They always had a chocolate log on Christmas Day. Gloria made a roulade mix, no flour, only eggs and sugar but heavy with expensive chocolate, and when it was cooked she rolled it up with whipped cream and chestnut puree and decorated it with chocolate butter cream, scored and marked to look like wood, and then sprinkled it with icing-sugar snow. Finally she cut ivy from the garden, frosted it with egg white and sugar and then twined it round the log.
Últimas palabras
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"Congratulations, Mrs Hatter," he said. "Our business is concluded."
Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
HTML:On a beautiful summer day, crowds lined up outside a theater witness a sudden act of extreme road rage: a tap on a fender triggers a nearly homicidal attack. Jackson Brodie, ex-cop, ex-private detective, new millionaire, is among the bystanders. The event thrusts Jackson into the orbit of the wife of an unscrupulous real estate tycoon, a washed-up comedian, a successful crime novelist, a mysterious Russian woman, and a female police detective. Each of them hiding a secret, each looking for love or money or redemption or escape, they all play a role in driving Jackson out of retirement and into the middle of several mysteries that intersect in one sinister scheme. Kate Atkinson "writes such fluid, sparkling prose that an ingenious plot almost seems too much to ask, but we get it anyway," writes Laura Miller for Salon. With a keen eye for the excesses of modern life, a warm understanding of the frailties of the human heart, and a genius for plots that turn and twist, Atkinson has written a novel that delights and surprises from the first page to the last.
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