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One Good Turn (National bestseller). Кейт Аткинсон327 руб
She followed that success with four other books, the last of which was Case Histories, her first foray into the mystery-suspense-detective genre. Kate Atkinson began her career with a winner: Behind the Scenes at the Museum, which captured the Whitbread First Novel Award. A great deal happened in-between. In that book she introduced detective Jackson Brodie, who reopened three cold cases and ended up a millionaire. He manages to fall into all kinds of trouble, starting with witnessing a brutal attack by "Honda Man" on another man stuck in a traffic jam. In One Good Turn Jackson returns, following his girlfriend, Julia the actress, to the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh. Martin is a shy, withdrawn, timid sort who, in a moment of unlikely action, flings a satchel at the attacker and spins him around, away from his victim. Is this road rage or something truly sinister? Another witness is Martin Canning, better known as Alex Blake, the writer. There is nastiness afoot, and everyone is involved. Gloria Hatter, wife of Graham, a millionaire property developer who is about to have all his secrets uncovered, is standing in a nearby queue with a friend when the attack takes place. Through a labyrinthine plot which is hard to follow because the points of view are constantly changing, the real story is played out, complete with Russians, false and mistaken identities, dead bodies, betrayals, and all manner of violent encounters. Nothing is coincidental. There might be yet another novel to follow which will take up the connection those two forge in this book. Jackson gets pulled in to the investigation by Louise Monroe, a police detective and mother of an errant 14-year-old. Atkinson has written an enjoyable and lively story of no degrees of separation among the most unlikely cast of characters. Or, Jackson might just go back to France and feed apples to the local livestock. 2006. Some plot lines have been left to drift, but it does hang together in a satisfying fashion. |