Kate Atkinson is one of the most respected and popular authors of modern Britain. Her debut novel received a prestigious Whitzedov Prize, bypassing many eminent candidates – for example, Salman Rushdi with his “farewell sigh of Moor”. However, real glory came to her with the publication of the “crimes of the past” – the first book from the cycle about the Cambridge private detective Jackson Brody. The novel caused a storm of delight among the critics, and among colleagues in the workshop, and the wide reader, one of the most ardent propagandists of Atkinson’s work himself became Stephen King himself.
In the novel “Crimes of the past,” a private detective Jackson Brody will have to do business that the police have long written off to the archive: about the mysterious night disappearance of a little girl from the parental garden; about the unmotivated murder of the daughter of a famous lawyer who helped him in the office; And about the bloody episode of domestic violence in a young family living on a farm. It would seem that there is nothing in common between all of them, and the traces were idle for a long time, ONE …
Author
Atkinson Kate
Translator
Nuanzina Maria
Publisher
ABC, 2014
Series
The stars of the world detective (soft)
Genre
Modern foreign prose
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