First he lost his job, then he split up with his wife and had to move out of the family home, and to make matters worse, he feels that he no longer fits in with his group of friends – they are ‘golfing friends, not friend friends’. Meanwhile, we meet Vince, a man for whom everything seems to be going wrong all at once. Nathan’s mother – Jackson’s ex-partner Julia – is busy filming the latest episodes of the TV police drama in which she has a starring role, so thirteen-year-old Nathan has been entrusted to Jackson for the summer, along with Julia’s ageing Labrador, Dido. In Big Sky, private investigator Jackson is on the trail of a client’s cheating husband, while also trying, without much success, to keep his teenage son, Nathan, entertained.
For those people who have been reading each book in the series as it was published, there has been a nine year wait between books four and five!
a chance at happiness and some measure of reconciliation with the past.Having finally caught up with the fourth book in Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series last year ( Started Early, Took My Dog), I have now been able to move on to the new one, Big Sky. This is a “compulsive page-turner that looks deep into the heart of sadness, cruelty, and loss,” which “ultimately grants her charming p.i. Kirkus Reviews found this novel revealing the talent Kate Atkinson showed in her first award-winning novel, “back on form” with this story. Brodie meets some people who reclaim his help to solve their cases
'Case Histories' tells the story of Jackson Brodie, a private investigator who tries to find out the truth of some cases. Case Histories has been described as Atkinson's breakthrough, and she has since published four additional novels featuring Brodie: One Good Turn (2006), When Will There Be Good News? (2008), Started Early, Took My Dog (2010) and Big Sky (2019). The plot revolves around three seemingly unconnected family tragedies – the disappearance of a three-year-old girl from a garden the murder of a husband by his wife with an axe and the apparently motiveless murder of a solicitor's daughter. It introduces Jackson Brodie, a former police inspector and now private investigator. Case Histories (2004) is a detective novel by British author Kate Atkinson and is set in Cambridge, England.
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