Kate Atkinson

Bienvenidos a Rook Hall.El escenario está listo. Los actores preparados. Y al final de la noche se producirá una revelación: el nombre el asesino.El exinspector de policía Jackson Brodie está pasando un caso grave de crisis de la mediana edad cuando le piden que vaya a un pueblecito de lo mas tranquilo en Yorkshire para ocuparse del caso, aparentemente rutinario, de un cuadro robado.Pero un robo lleva a otro y se produce la desaparicion de una valiosa obra de Turner de Burton Makepeace, el hogar de lady Milton y su familia.El lugar, que en el pasado fue una grandiosa casa de campo, se ha trasformado parcialmente en un hotel, que organiza encuentros de fin de semana para aficionados a las novelas de misterio.En el hotel, donde se alojan al mismo tiempo un pastor eclesiastico, un exoficial del ejercito, aristocratas completamente arruinados y viejos amigos, surgira un misterio tremendamente inteligente, que le rinde homenaje a los grandes maestros del genero, de Agatha Christie a Dorothy Sayers.Brillante y original, con las habituales señas de identidad de Atkinson, su ingenio, sus juegos de palabras y su agil narrativa, Muerte en Rook Hall puede que sea el caso mas descabellado y memorable de Jackson Brodie hasta el momento.

La primera historia de Jackson Brodie, una novela policíaca de la galardonada autora de "Cielo abierto" y "La mecanógrafa", dos números uno en ventas. Cambridge es asfixiante durante un verano inusualmente caluroso. Para Jackson Brodie, exinspector de policia convertido en investigador privado, el mundo consiste en una hoja de contabilidad: perdidos a la izquierda, encontrados a la derecha, y los dos nunca parecen estar equilibrados. Rodeado por la muerte, la intriga y la desgracia, y con su propia vida atormentada por una tragedia familiar, Jackson intenta resolver tres casos distintos y empieza a darse cuenta de que, a pesar de que parezcan no tener relacion, todo esta conectado.

Hay momentos imposibles de olvidar: Joanna aún recuerda la tarde de verano en que un hombre se acercó a su madre y a sus hermanos y acabó con la vida de su familia. Ella, una niña de seis años, consiguio huir y ahora es una mujer que intenta llevar una vida apacible con su marido y su hijo. Hasta que un buen dia el pasado vuelve para pasar factura: Joanna y el niño desaparecen sin dejar rastro y quien se ve involucrado en la investigacion de este extraño caso es Jackson Brodie, un hombre adorablemente imperfecto que trabaja como detective y siempre acaba confundiendo profesion y vida privada.

Kate Atkinson se revela una vez más como la espléndida heredera de una tradición que tiene en sus filas a mujeres de la talla de Patricia Highsmith y P.D. JamesTracy Waterhouse, una mujer de mediana edad con unos kilos de mas y muchas ilusiones de menos, pasea distraida por un centro comercial de la ciudad de Leeds, cuando ve a una niña corriendo, tirada de la mano de una prostituta conocida en el barrio. De repente, Tracy sabe que comprara algo mas que galletas... Al poco rato, la niña esta en su coche y desde entonces la vida sera para ella un ir y venir de emociones desconocidas.Tracy confia en que no hubo testigos de ese extraño negocio, pero Jackson Brodie entra de repente en escena: sus dotes de gran investigador y de hombre imperfecto van a convertir una trama policial en una historia donde las cuestiones morales seran lo que realmente importa.

La segunda historia de Jackson Brodie (tras "Expedientes"), una novela policíaca de la galardonada autora de Cielo abierto y La mecanógrafa, dos números uno en ventas. Es verano, en el Festival de Edimburgo. La gente que hace cola para un espectaculo a la hora de la comida es testigo de un incidente violento en la carretera: un ataque casi homicida que cambia la vida de todos los alli presentes. Jackson Brodie, exmilitar, expolicia y exdetective privado, es tambien uno de los inocentes espectadores, hasta que se convierte en sospechoso de asesinato. A medida que aumenta el numero de muertos, el relato de cada uno de los miembros del numeroso elenco dickensiano incluye un fragmento del siguiente, como un conjunto de muñecas rusas anidadas. Todos buscan amor, dinero, redencion o una via de escape, pero lo que en realidad descubren es su verdadero ser.

In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison. In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for a G.P. But Dr. Hunter has gone missing and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware that hurtling towards her is an old friend - Jackson Brodie - himself on a journey that becomes fatally interrupted.

Bajo una ola de calor, entre turistas despistados y estudiantes extranjeros, el detecive Jackson Brodie se ocupa de sus casos en un Cambridge al margen de la imponente sombra de los colleges. Con la trama trepidante de un thriller y el calado de una novela psicológica, plantea un acercamiento caleidoscópico y plural al clásico relato detectivesco, que gana así en hondura sin perder ritmo ni interés.

Parce qu'il a été témoin d'un violent accrochage entre deux automobilistes, Jackson Brodie, dont nous avons fait connaissance dans " La Souris Bleue ", va se trouver propulsé dans une série d'aventures incroyables. " Les choses s'arrangent. " est un thriller, une comedie noire et une satire de la vie contemporaine britannique. Kate Atkinson y brocarde, entre autres, le theatre d'avant-garde, une certaine litterature populaire, les promoteurs immobiliers, les nouveaux riches, etc. , avec l'humour corrosif qu'on lui connait.

It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident 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 suspect. With Case Histories, Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In One Good Turn she takes her masterful plotting one step further. Like a set of Russian dolls each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last. Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ever with Atkinson what each one actually discovers is their true self. Unputdownable and triumphant, One Good Turn is a sharply intelligent read that is also percipient, funny, and totally satisfying.

Kate Atkinson enfrenta a Jackson Brodie, ex militar, ex policía y ex detective privado, a un caso en el que será algo más que observador. Y es que, en esta ocasión, Jackson se verá convertido nada me

Kate Atkinson's three latest bestsellers, Case Histories, One Good Turn and When WIll There Be Good News?, also featured the former private detective Jackson Brodie. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year for her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, and has been a critically acclaimed international bestselling author ever since. When Will There Be Good News? was no.1 on the Sunday Times bestsellers list for three consecutive weeks in paperback and is the bestselling paperback novel of 2009 Behind the Scenes at the Museum won the Whitbread Book of the Year.

This is the winner of the Costa Novel Award. What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.

This is the winner of the costa novel award. What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.

Kate Atkinsons dazzling Life After Life, one of the top selling adult books of 2014, explored the possibility of infinite chances, as Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again.In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursulas beloved younger brother Teddy would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband and father as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have.A God in Ruins is a masterful companion to Life After Life, and will prove once again that Kate Atkinson is one of the finest novelists of our age.

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It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident 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 suspect.With Case Histories, Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In One Good Turn she takes her masterful plotting one step further. Like a set of Russian dolls each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last. Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ever with Atkinson what each one actually discovers is their true self.Unputdownable and triumphant, One Good Turn is a sharply intelligent read that is also percipient, funny, and totally satisfying.