DEATH AT THE SIGN OF THE ROOK
Jackson Brodie returns! From the Number One bestselling author, a brilliantly clever take on the classic country house murder mystery; a homage to writers such as Agatha Christie
THE 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
DISCOVER THE NEW JACKSON BRODIE NOVEL, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SHRINES OF GAIETY
'How delicious to have Jackson Brodie back, this time in a story that starts off in Agatha Christie's world but soon becomes a landscape that could only have been crafted from the pen of the incomparable Kate Atkinson' Ian Rankin
'Christie would be proud . . . I defy you not to snort with laughter as the novel progresses to its farcical denouement. Atkinson is brilliant' Observer
KATE ATKINSON
Kate Atkinson is one of the world's foremost novelists. She won the Costa Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her three critically lauded and prizewinning novels set around World War II are Life After Life, A God in Ruins both winners of the Costa Novel Award , and Transcription. She was appointed MBE for services to literature in 2011.
Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie returns in her new novel Big Sky.
Edad: adultos
ATKINSON KATE
Escritora inglesa, Kate Atkinson se licenció en Literatura Inglesa en la Universidad de Dundee y trabajó como secretaria personal, profesora y autora freelance para revistas femeninas, hasta que en 1995 logró hacerse con el Premio Whitbread. Atkinson ha publicado tanto novela como antologías de relatos, practicando de manera notable el género criminal, demostración de lo cual es el Premio Crime Thriller Gold Dagger de 2009. De entre su obra habría que destacar la serie de novelas protagonizadas por el expolicía y detective privado Jackson Brodie, que han sido llevadas a la televisión en varias ocasiones. En 2011 le fue concedida la Orden del Imperio Británico por su contribución a la literatura inglesa.
