One Good Turn Av Kate Atkinson

<p><b>The second Jackson Brodie novel (after Case Histories)</b><b>: literary crime from the prizewinning, number-one bestselling author of <i>Big Sky </i>and<i> Transcription</i>.</b><br><br><b>''An absolute joy to read...the pleasure of <i>One</i> <i>Good</i> <i>Turn</i> lies in the ride, in Atkinson''s wry, unvanquished characters, her swooping, savvy, sarcastic prose and authorial joie de vivre'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - a near-homicidal attack which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a murder suspect. <br><br>As the body count mounts, each member of the teeming Dickensian cast''s story contains a kernel of the next, like a set of nesting Russian dolls. They are all looking for love or money or redemption or escape: but what each actually discovers is their own true self.</p>