Jackson Brodie: When Will There Be Good News? : A Novel (Series #3) (CD-Audio)

from Tatoosh

When, indeed! It's a grim world that Atkinson creates for readers, a world in which almost everyone is damaged and, to some extent, alienated. There is Joanne who survived the massacre of her mother, older sister, and younger brother at age 6 and, as an acclaimed athlete and physician, married a ...

from lauralkeet

This is the third book in the Jackson Brodie mystery series, and the best so far. Joanna Hunter seems to have it all: she's a successful doctor and mother of a darling baby boy. But thirty years ago Joanna's life was dramatically changed by tragedy: her mother, sister, and brother were all killed...

from BellaFoxx

When Will There Be Good News? is one of those books that has three or four story lines that seem totally unrelated to each other but bit by bit they come together. This book is told from the perspective of Joanna Mason, who witnesses a crime when she is six, now it is 30 years later and the man c...

from cat-ballou

So you may recall that I was intensely disappointed by the immediate sequel to Kate Atkinson's brilliant Case Histories, One Good Turn. That disappointment was a big part of why I waited so long to pick this one up. I knew that eventually I would read it, because I enjoy Kate Atkinson & I adore h...

from cathyskye

First Line: The heat rising up from the tarmac seemed to get trapped between the thick hedges that towered above their heads like battlements. When Joanna Mason was six, she obeyed her mother and lived while all the rest of them died. Thirty years later, Jackson Brodie is on a crowded train that'...