

In 2010, Kate Atkinson released the fourth book in the Jackson Brodie series, Started Early, Took My Dog.

When Will There Be Good News was also a winner in the 2009 Richard and Judy Book Club awards. Kate Atkinson followed One Good Turn with the third book in the Jackson Brodie series, When Will There Be Good News? When Will There Be Good News was released in 2008, continuing Atkinson’s trend of releasing a new Jackson Brodie book every two years. While Brodie is retired at the start of One Good Turn, and enjoying the company of his on-and-off girlfriend, he soon finds himself dragged back into action, out of retirement and having to solve several mysteries that seemingly all tie-in together into one sinister plot. The second book in the Jackson Brodie series of books is One Good Turn, which was released in 2006, continues Brodie’s story, this time in the Scottish capital city of Edinburgh, during the height of the city’s famous Fringe Festival.

Atkinson received the Saltire Book of the Year award, as well as the Prix Westminster for Case Histories, gaining widespread acclaim for the first book in Jackson Brodie’s series. As well as the three cases, Brodie must also juggle his complicated personal life. And the final case Brodie is investigating involves a wife and mother who is trapped in a relationship that ends up a violent and bloody manner.

The second case involves a young woman who is apparently attacked at random by a rampaging maniac. The first case is a young girl who vanishes during the night, with no trace of her left behind. In the first book in the Jackson Brodie series, Case Histories, which was released in 2005, we are introduced to Jackson as he is brought on to investigate three separate cases. Jackson Brodie is an ex-cop, so he puts the skills he picked up during his years in the police for to good use in his work as a private investigator. The character of Jackson Brodie is private investigator who originally comes from the English county of Yorkshire, but who now resides in Cambridge, in the south-east of England.
