One Good Turn, Kate Atkinson
One Good Turn, Kate Atkinson
1 Rating(s)
List: $31.99 | Sale: $22.40
Club: $15.99

One Good Turn
A Novel

Author: Kate Atkinson

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Unabridged: 14 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/05/2020

Synopsis

A beautiful summer day turns violent when a crowd witnesses a sudden act of extreme road rage where a tap on a fender triggers a nearly homicidal attack, leading one of the bystanders—Jackson Brodie, ex-cop, ex-private detective, new millionaire—to take on the case. The event thrusts Jackson into the orbit of the wife of an unscrupulous real estate tycoon, a washed-up comedian, a successful crime novelist, a mysterious Russian woman, and a female police detective. Each of them hiding a secret, each looking for love or money or redemption or escape, they all play a role in driving Jackson out of retirement and into the middle of several mysteries that intersect in one sinister scheme. Kate Atkinson "writes such fluid, sparkling prose that an ingenious plot almost seems too much to ask, but we get it anyway," writes Laura Miller for Salon. With a keen eye for the excesses of modern life, a warm understanding of the frailties of the human heart, and a genius for plots that turn and twist, Atkinson has written a novel that delights and surprises from the first page to the last.

About Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson is the author of Behind the Scenes at the Museum, winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year, Human Croquet, Emotionally Weird, Not the End of the World, Case Histories, One Good Turn, and Life after Life. She lives in Edinburgh, U.K.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jaline on April 29, 2019

In this second of the Jackson Brodie series, Kate Atkinson’s writing once again brings a fascinating cast of characters to our attention in a plot that has hidden links and connections on all fronts. I like how we discover so much about the characters in this novel. If there is more, beyond the usua......more

Goodreads review by brook on December 27, 2007

it took me long enough to finish this one, which says a lot. i'm the person who will willingly give up sleep, food, social interaction and general human-like activities to read a good book. i really liked kate atkinson's case histories. it's been awhile since i read it, but it left enough of an impr......more

Goodreads review by Baba on November 25, 2021

Jackson Brodie Book 2: With the Edinburgh festival in the background, Atkinson takes a road rage incident as the starting point for numerous individual stories (each chapter from the point of view of one of the cast) that start to come together and centre around the main story of the collapse of a p......more

Goodreads review by PattyMacDotComma on July 18, 2019

5★ “Somehow it seemed unlikely it was a coincidence. What had Jackson said? A coincidence is just an explanation waiting to happen.” Kate Atkinson is one of my favourite writers, and the quote above describes the nature of her Jackson Brodie mysteries. There are seemingly random incidents and events i......more

Goodreads review by Lizzie on March 09, 2015

I am tempted to write this review as "nah," and leave it at that, but I want to do better by it. I am rating this really low! Surprisingly low. I don't hate this author. This isn't terrible writing. (Possibly, it is rather better writing than the Tana French book I just finished; at least nobody is d......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List