In the prelude, we discover that the fleet-footed Joanna was the only survivor of a brutal attack on her family by a crazed killer.
That may literally mean running away in the case of Joanna Hunter, an Edinburgh doctor who has disappeared with her young baby. The common denominator is that they’re each, in their own way, trying to flee the past.
Seemingly unrelated characters, even the most peripheral ones, are inextricably interlinked in a complex matrix. It’s the most satisfying novel of Atkinson’s trilogy.Īs with the previous two installments, “Case Histories” (2004) and “One Good Turn” (2006), Atkinson’s latest mystery is the literary equivalent of an MC Escher drawing in its labyrinthine, yet holistic, architecture. First, the bad news about Kate Atkinson’s When Will There Be Good News? The accompanying press release states this is the final book in her series about detective Jackson Brodie.
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