One Good Turn
About this book
Awards BCA Crime Thriller of the Year Best Novel (nominee) It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a suspect. With "Case Histories", Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In "One Good Turn", she takes her masterful plotting one step further. Like a set of Russian dolls, each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last. Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ever with Atkinson what each one actually discovers is their true self. Unputdownable and triumphant, "One Good Turn" is a sharply intelligent read that is also percipient, funny, and totally satisfying.
Reader Profile
4.0/5 · 410 readers · 400 pages · ≈ 7 h 24 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read One Good Turn?
About ≈ 7 h 24 m — 400 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is One Good Turn?
400 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is One Good Turn?
It sits on the Thriller, Mystery, Fiction shelves.
Is One Good Turn in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote One Good Turn?
Kate Atkinson (1195–0).