If you haven't met him yet, this is a fine place to start. 'The handsome investigator that Kate Atkinson introduced in 2004's Case Histories, played by Jason Isaacs on the BBC series, hasn't appeared in a new book since 2011. They are sui generis and they, like this one, are enormously enjoyable.'- Katherine A.

Her Jackson Brodie novels are both more than crime novels - and less. Kate Atkinson is a wayward writer, her books are, in the end, uncategorizable. 'The plot of Big Sky is something of a ramshackle affair, but it hardly matters. As is often the case in Atkinson's genre-defying fiction, assignments to track lost cats and unfaithful husbands are never quite what they seem.'- TIME, 32 Books You Need to Read this Summer 'The bestselling British writer returns to Brodie's world for a fifth time in Big Sky, which finds the hero ensconced in a quaint northern English seaside town, making a living as a private investigator. With Atkinson it's Raymond Chandler meets Jane Austen, and amazingly she makes it all work.'- The Washington Post's Best Summer Thrillers There isn't a character here - major or minor - who doesn't sashay resplendently off the page. 'The novel is brimming with the wit and let-justice-triumph tenacity that led the series to print bestsellerdom and a popular BBC-TV series. Thank goodness the long Jackson Brodie hiatus is over.'- Janet Maslin, New York Times It's a prime example of how Atkinson tells a great story, toys with expectations, deceives by omission, blows smoke and also writes like she's your favorite friend. It's a short chapter called 'Eloping,' and if you have a way of looking at it, do. It's a bit of a red herring, but it couldn't do a better job of throwing the reader off base and commanding instant interest. 'Atkinson opens 'Big Sky' with one perfect page. One of Vanity Fair's Best Books of the Year

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