Kate Atkinson got into the major league of modern literature on the very first attempt: her debut novel, The Museum of My Secrets, won the prestigious Whitbread Prize, bypassing Salman Rushdie’s Farewell Sigh of the Moor, and the cycle of novels about private detective Jackson Brody, which also managed to be loved by the Russian reader ( «Crimes of the Past», «Turn for the Better», «Should We Wait for Good News?» The total circulation of the cycle exceeded three million copies, and on the basis of his first books, the BBC channel released the series Crimes of the Past with Jackson Isaacs in the title role.
Jackson Brody has settled in a tiny seaside village in North Yorkshire, where his son and a decrepit Labrador are sometimes accompanied, and sadly awaits his daughter’s wedding. While doing the routine work of a private detective — mainly collecting evidence of adultery — Jackson one day meets a completely desperate man on a crumbling cliff. Lending him a helping hand in the literal and figurative sense, Jackson involuntarily gets involved in the investigation of terrible crimes that have been happening under the police’s nose for many years, and they are being done by the most decent and respected people. Simultaneously with Jackson, this ominous tangle called the «magic circle» is being unraveled by his old Edinburgh acquaintance, to whom he owes his life — the erudite and by no means little Reggie Dich …
“A magical — and magically addictive — world of intersecting paths, treacherous designs and amazing coincidences. Incredibly exciting and touching ”(Sunday Mirror).
For the first time in Russian!
Attention! The phonogram contains profanity!
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