One Good Turn (novel)
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| Author | Kate Atkinson |
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| Cover artist | Neil Gower |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Jackson Brodie |
| Genre | Crime Fiction |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
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Publication date
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2006 |
| Media type | Print, audio & ebook |
| Pages | 400 |
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| Preceded by | Case Histories |
| Followed by | When Will There Be Good News? |
One Good Turn (subtitled A Jolly Murder Mystery) is a 2006 crime novel by Kate Atkinson set in Edinburgh during the Festival. 'People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a brutal road rage incident - an incident that changes the lives of everyone involved.' It is the second novel to feature former private investigator Jackson Brodie and is set two years after the earlier Case Histories.
Reviews were mixed. Justine Jordan of The Guardian enjoyed the novel, saying
Liesl Schillinger of the New York Times said, "Kate Atkinson shows again, in her inimitable bleakly funny way, how much easier it is to explain a death than to solve a life." In "no hurry to judge," Atkinson "acts like a hidden camera, dispassionately recording her characters’ deeds and misdeeds so they can indict themselves. Indeed, she has woven the technological accessories of the last 10 years into the fabric of her story, threading them through it like an invisible current into which the lives of all her characters are plugged."
But Amanda Craig writing in The Independent says
The novel was adapted for television with two other of Atkinson's Brodie series for the BBC in 2011, under the overall title of as the second two parts of the series Case Histories. This novel was covered in two parts.
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