“Big Sky” has all the sizzle of a British fry-up
previous book featuring Jackson Brodie was published in 2010, Kate Atkinson’s irascible detective has appeared in his own television series, “Case Histories” ; his creator has published a series of acclaimed but unrelated novels. Now, in “Big Sky”, the fifth Brodie mystery, Ms Atkinson moves the scene of her crimes from Leeds to the picturesque Yorkshire coast. Cold cases are reopened, and characters from Brodie’s past reappear, bent either on villainy or on avenging some terrible wrong.
In the depiction of this despicable business, as in all Ms Atkinson’s fiction, she supplies gruesome discoveries and a strong helping of violence, all nevertheless relayed with a deft and witty touch. Her Brodie novels recall a line from “The Importance of Being Earnest”: “The good end happily, the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
Last, there is Brodie himself, who is now to be found working uninspiring cases as a private detective, while awkwardly spending time with his adolescent son. For their part, the bad guys run a gamut from hapless to pure evil. They include Barclay Jack, an ageing stand-up comedian, and whoever it was who bludgeoned Vince’s highly dislikeable estranged wife.
; Ms Atkinson’s evocation of the beauty and desolation of faded seaside resorts is unerring. As in the other Brodie novels, several stories are woven into a seamless plot, with the help of credible-seeming twists of fate. And there is just enough unfinished business to leave readers impatient for his next outing."Seaside rock"
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