Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914 EAN: 9780316033480 ISBN: 0316033480 Label: Little, Brown and Company Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: September 01, 2008 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Sales Rank: 8197 Studio: Little, Brown and Company
Product DescriptionCase one: A little girl goes missing in the night.
Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack.
Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making - with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband - until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.
Thirty years after the first incident, as private investigator Jackson Brodie begins investigating all three cases, startling connections and discoveries emerge . . .
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - A Terrific Story
I read for story. If characters are developed it's a definite plus. If the writing is interesting and gets to the point with an economy of useful words, I'm hooked. I was hooked on this story (stories) and finished it in three days. Then I went out and got "When Will There Be Good News". If your tastes are like mine, you'll enjoy Atkinson.
Rating: - Demands to be read a second time
Like all Kate Atkinson books, you feel you need to read it again. The plot and the characters are very intertwined and it is only on a second reading that some of the subtle connections become clear. This is not to say that you can't understand the story on a single read-through, but rather that there is a richness obtained from a second reading.
I was a little unsatisfied by the Caroline storyline. Her "present day" story never seemed to intertwine with the other characters; she was ... Read More
Rating: - (3.5) "Time was a thief, he stole your life away."
As her recent novel has shown (When Will There Be Good News?), Atkinson's talent has developed over the years, a unique style that is more an aggregation of circumstances than fluid narrative. As the title indicates, there are three mysteries that form the crux of this novel: a little girl disappears one summer night when sleeping outdoors with her sister (1970); a young woman is savagely killed her first day on a new job (1994); and a small family, mother, baby and husband are caught ... Read More
Rating: - Tedious and Depressing
I was given this book from my mother in law. We are both HUGE readers and trade off books to save money. Neither of us is too picky about what we read because we read so much. Well, I never got her perspective on the book before I started it so can't say what she thought passing it off to me. I started it and after a few chapters put it down and didn't pick it up again for about 6 months. Until there was nothing at all left to read in my house and then I started it again.
Rating: - A Compelling Read
First Sentence: How lucky were they?
Ex-cop Jackson Brodie has three cases on which he is working. In 1970, Olivia, the youngest of three sisters disappears after she and another sister spent the night in their backyard tent. Their father has now died. When cleaning out his desk, the two middle sisters find Olivia's favorite toy. What happened to Olivia? In
1979, an overwhelmed wife and mother reaches the breaking point with disastrous results. Her sister wants Jackson to ... Read More
- Tedious and Depressing
