Rating: 5/5
Review:
Terrific
I love the Jackson Brodie series. As detective thrillers they may
not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I found this, like the others,
thoughtful, engrossing and immensely enjoyable.
In When Will There
Be Good News, a thoroughly unlikely series of events takes Brodie
back to Edinburgh where we are introduced to a group of variously
connected characters, a historic murder whose perpetrator is being
released after 30 years and, of course, Louise Monroe (now a DCI) who
is as gloriously spiky as ever and in a superficially perfect
marriage to a charming and cultured surgeon. It is Kate Atkinson’s
portrayal of these characters which makes the books so brilliant; her
writing is pitch perfect and rich, recognisable pictures of real
people rise from the page to involve you in their lives. There are
crimes, some exciting action scenes and so on, but on the whole the
action is at a very measured pace. I love that and found myself
completely gripped, so that I had no trouble in overlooking the
rather large number of coincidences in the plot.
In short, I thought
this was terrific. It’s a very fine novel of character while being
a thoroughly readable and enjoyable detective story. Very warmly
recommended.
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