DEATH AT THE SIGN OF THE ROOK - A JACKSON BRODIE NOVEL
THE 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
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
Welcome to Rook Hall.
The stage is set. The players are ready. By night's end, a murderer will be revealed.
Ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off a bad case of midlife malaise when he is called to a sleepy Yorkshire town, and the seemingly tedious matter of a stolen painting.
But one theft leads to another, including the disappearance of a valuable Turner from Burton Makepeace, home to Lady Milton and her family.
Once a magnificent country house, Burton Makepeace has now partially been converted into a hotel, hosting Murder Mystery weekends.
As paying guests, a vicar, an ex-army officer, impecunious aristocrats, and old friends converge, we are treated a fiendishly clever mystery; one that pays homage to the masters of the genre-from Agatha Christie to Dorothy Sayers.
Brilliantly inventive, with all of Atkinson's signature wit, wordplay and narrative brio, Death at the Sign of the Rook may be Jackson Brodie's most outrageous and memorable case yet.
'Sharp, droll and knowing as ever, Atkinson has huge fun with the set-up; the supporting cast is terrific, and the rueful Brodie, ever more mindful of the passing years, feels like an old friend.' Guardian
'Delicious character studies fine writing, wit, originality and eccentricity - even as it induces a warm glow' Telegraph
Edad recomendada: 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.
