Turn to the better: Kate Atkinson

This time, the action takes place in the Scottish capital, flooded by tourists during the famous annual Edinburgh Festival of Arts. Again, Jackson Brody is a witness to the seemingly unrelated episodes: a prominent businessman, under whom the department of economic crimes is already digging with might and main, enters the hospital with a heart attack under very compromising circumstances; The ebb leaves the body of a girl with skeleton earrings on the shore, but the tide again takes him to the sea, despite all the efforts of Jackson Brody, who accidentally turned out to be nearby. The local police sees in it at best a liar, or even a suspect …

Author
Atkinson Kate
Editor
Mikerina Elena
Translator
Nuanzina Maria
Publisher
ABC, 2012
Series
World detective
Genre
Modern foreign prose