Two of the surviving sisters want to know what happened to their missing sibling. Years pass before Brodie, a former police officer now working as a private investigator, is hired by three different people to look into all three cases. A depressed young mother kills her husband with an ax. A young woman is slashed to death on her first day working at her father's law office. A married couple who don't deserve to have any children nevertheless have four daughters, the youngest of which disappears one summer night. This itself is unusual for a mystery novel. This helps explain why the book is so sensational.Ītkinson begins with three "case histories," each separated by time and space. Atkinson's meaty, satisfying prose will attract many eager readers.Kate Atkinson breaks all the rules for murder mysteries in “Case Histories,” her 2004 novel that introduced Jackson Brodie. Atkinson contrasts the inevitable results of family dysfunction with random fate, gracefully weaving the three stories into a denouement that taps into collective wishful thinking and suggests that warmth and safety may be found in the aftermath of blood and abandonment.
The humility of the extraordinary, unabashed characters is skillfully revealed with humor and surprise. Jackson's reluctant persistence heats up these cold cases and by happenstance leads him to reassess his own painful history.
In the third dog-eared case file, the sibling of an infamous ax-bludgeoner seeks a reunion with her niece, who as a baby was a witness to murder. A retired lawyer who lives only on the fumes of possible justice next enlists Jackson's aid in solving the brutal killing of his grown daughter 10 years earlier.
The first case introduces two middle-aged sisters who, after the death of their vile, distant father, look again into the disappearance of their beloved sister Olivia, last seen at three years old, while they were camping under the stars during an oppressive heat wave. In this ambitious fourth novel from Whitbread winner Atkinson (Behind the Scenes at the Museum), private detective Jackson Brodie ex-cop, ex-husband and weekend dad takes on three cases involving past crimes that occurred in and around London.
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