Case histories

Case histories / by Kate Atkinson ; read by Susan Jameson.-- Hampton, NH : BBC Audiobooks America, p2004.
9 sound discs (ca. 10 hrs. 44 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally published by Chivers Audio, Bath in 2004
Unabridged
Compact discs
ISBN: 9780792733836

1. Brodie, Jackson (Fictitious Character) -- Fiction. 2. Cambridge (England) -- Fiction. 3. Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction. 4. Missing persons -- Fiction. 5. Mystery fiction.

823.914

Retired Cambridge police inspector Jackson Brodie has set up as a private detective. Unfortunately, his business is experiencing a downturn, there are only a few errant spouses to trail and his one steady customer is the eccentric and wealthy old cat lady, who keeps him busy tracking down stray cats. Then suddenly he has three new clients with three old cases. Theo wants him to find the murderer of his beloved daughter. The case is ten years old and he thinks the police have given up. The Land sisters, back in Cambridge for their father’s funeral, want to know what happened to their sister who disappeared thirty years ago when she was three. Then the sister of a the woman convicted of axe murdering her husband wants him to track down her runaway niece, the niece she’d promised her sister to care for like her own. It’s not a very hopeful caseload, and to add to these annoyances, someone is trying to kill Brodie.


Atkinson writes a very literate mystery, built on her characters, that shifts back and forth in time. It reveals both unexpected and solutions to the cases and motivation from Brodie’s own past. Once again, Jameson, the narrator of Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum, is exceptionally skillful and effective.