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*****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.
****'Exceptionally smart wild and brimming with sardonic wit... A gourmet read from first
course to last' Janice Hallett author of The AppealPRAISE FOR KATE ATKINSON'Atkinson proves
quite unique in her ability to fuse emotional drama and thriller...Imagine a Richard Curtis
film scripted by Raymond Chandler' The TimesKate Atkinson is an international treasure: She
creates characters with the ease of Agatha Christie makes narratives out of mysteries and
mystery out of narrative' Vanity Fair'Sharp humour together with a number of unexpected twists
makes this a typically pacey and intelligent read' Daily Mail'Spot on characterizations pitch
perfect observations of contemporary culture and a sharp wisecracking narrative voice' Time
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