For years he had thought about moving back north, but he knew he never would. He had come here more or less by accident, following a girlfriend and staying for a wife.
"Jackson had never felt at home in Cambridge, never felt at home in the south of England if it came to that. His ability to connect comes from his own tragic childhood that still haunts him. He's unable to resist coming to the rescue and increasingly he becomes a magnet for the bereaved, the lost and the dysfunctional. Jackson's tough-guy exterior belies a deeply empathetic heart. A former soldier and policeman he now makes his money working from investigating infidelity and finding missing cats. a chance at happiness and some measure of reconciliation with the past.Jackson Brodie is a private investigator, originally from Yorkshire. This is a “compulsive page-turner that looks deep into the heart of sadness, cruelty, and loss,” which “ultimately grants her charming p.i.
Kirkus Reviews found this novel revealing the talent Kate Atkinson showed in her first award-winning novel, “back on form” with this story. Brodie meets some people who reclaim his help to solve their cases 'Case Histories' tells the story of Jackson Brodie, a private investigator who tries to find out the truth of some cases. Case Histories has been described as Atkinson's breakthrough, and she has since published four additional novels featuring Brodie: One Good Turn (2006), When Will There Be Good News? (2008), Started Early, Took My Dog (2010) and Big Sky (2019).
The plot revolves around three seemingly unconnected family tragedies – the disappearance of a three-year-old girl from a garden the murder of a husband by his wife with an axe and the apparently motiveless murder of a solicitor's daughter. It introduces Jackson Brodie, a former police inspector and now private investigator. Case Histories (2004) is a detective novel by British author Kate Atkinson and is set in Cambridge, England.
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