Kurzbeschreibung

Eine bewegende Schilderung menschlicher Schicksale, die den Leser fesselt von der ersten bis zur letzen Seite. The first Jackson Brodie novel by the author of When Will There Be Good News? , bestselling literary crime from a master storyteller.

Beschreibung

Die Schwestern Sylvia, Amelia und Julia sind wilde Teenager, die ihre Mutter permanent überfordern. Deren Sonnenschein ist die von allen innig geliebte kleine Olivia. In einer heißen Sommernacht verschwindet die Kleine spurlos. Dreißig Jahre später taucht Olivias Lieblingsspielzeug auf. Was ist damals passiert? Die Schwestern betrauen den Privatdetektiv Jackson mit dem Fall. Nach und nach lernt Jackson die drei Schwestern näher kennen und sieht, dass das Verschwinden Olivias das Drama ihres Lebens ist. All ihre Träume und Sehnsüchte haben sich verflüchtigt, die kleine Schwester dagegen ist ständig anwesend. Jackson kennt dieses Gefühl. Auch er hat seine Schwester plötzlich verloren. Obwohl er nicht glaubt, dass er den Fall lösen kann, trägt er pflichtbewusst seine Ermittlungsergebnisse zusammen und entdeckt durch einen Zufall den Schlüssel zu dem tragischen Verlust der drei Schwestern. Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - Lost on the left, Found on the right - and the two never seem to balance.

Jackson has never felt at home in Cambridge, and has a failed marriage to prove it. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life haunted by a family tragedy, he attempts to unravel three disparate case histories and begins to realise that in spite of apparent diversity, everything is connected...

Rezension

"Her best book yet, an astonishingly complex and moving literary detective story that made me sob but also snort with laughter. It's the sort of novel you have to start rereading the minute you've finished it" Rachel Cusk Guardian

Klappentext

The first Jackson Brodie novel: literary crime from the prizewinning, number-one bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription.

'An astonishingly complex and moving literary detective story that made me sob but also snort with laughter. It's the sort of novel you have to start rereading the minute you've finished it' Guardian

Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - Lost on the left, Found on the right - and the two never seem to balance.

Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life haunted by a family tragedy, Jackson attempts to unravel three disparate case histories and begins to realise that in spite of apparent diversity, everything is connected...

Klappentext

An intricately plotted novel by the Whitbread winner, her first since "Emotionally Weird". A commericial story full of suspense and often very funny. Set in Cambridge, a private investigator is thrown into the middle of three unsolved old cases. "Triumphant... Her best book yet... A tragi-comedy for our times" "Sunday Telegraph"