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Case Histories

The first book in the Jackson Brodie series from the bestselling author

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Case Histories

Van: Kate Atkinson
Verteld door: Susan Jameson
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The first Jackson Brodie novel: literary crime from the prizewinning, number-one bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription.

Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - Lost on the left, Found on the right - and the two never seem to balance.

Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life haunted by a family tragedy, Jackson attempts to unravel three disparate case histories and begins to realise that in spite of apparent diversity, everything is connected...

'An astonishingly complex and moving literary detective story that made me sob but also snort with laughter. It's the sort of novel you have to start rereading the minute you've finished it' Guardian

© Kate Atkinson 2004 (P) Penguin Audio 2014

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Her best book yet, an astonishingly complex and moving literary detective story that made me sob but also snort with laughter. It's the sort of novel you have to start rereading the minute you've finished it
Sharp humour, together with a number of unexpected twists makes this a typically pacey and intelligent read
A greedy feast of a story by a masterful author...A profound, exciting and lingering read
Triumphant...Her best book yet...A tragi-comedy for our times
To read it is to enter a hall of mirrors...Part complex family drama, part mystery, it winds up having more depth and vividness than ordinary thrillers and more thrills than ordinary fiction...A wonderfully tricky book
As satisfying as anything dreamed up by Raymond Chandler, but the beauty of the novel lies in its spot-on characterizations, pitch perfect observations of contemporary culture and a sharp, wisecracking narrative voice
Shot through with sharp, black humour, and introducing a loveable hero in Brodie, this is storytelling that satisfies at every level
Atkinson is very good indeed... more satisfying than many detective novels. Everyone who picks it up will feel compelled to follow it through to the last page
Brilliantly playful, witty and original... massive and consistent talent for comedy
Intriguing and affecting... she has also created a compelling central chracter in world-weary private investigator Jackson Brodie, who is determined to bring justice to all the lives that lie fractured around him
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The story just keeps rambling along. While that can have its perks, this audiobook would definitely have benefitted from a male reader. Especially since the story is told from the perspective of the male protagonist.

Moreover, the voice of the reader is grating and she over-performs.

like a slow-moving train

Er is een fout opgetreden. Probeer het over een paar minuten opnieuw.
My goodness, I've rarely been so bugged by a book. Most of the characters are annoying (not helped by the excessive over-performance of the reader), hardly anything happens in the story but the listener gets taken on endless detours, most of them covering some sort of sexual experience of one of the characters - needless to say, they don't add anything to the plot, I assume they are meant to add "character"... at some point I started skipping forward whenever such a detour occurred.

I only finished to hear how it all comes together in the end, which if I'm honest was not worth it...

As mentioned, the reader does not help - every single sentence is dramatically performed, even the most banal information is delivered with undeserved relish that made me roll my eyes more often than not.

Couldn't wait for it to be over

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