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Imprint: Transworld Digital
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Published: 01/04/2010
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ISBN: 9781409082729
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Length: 360 Minutes
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RRP: £9.00
It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - a near-homicidal attack 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 murder suspect.
As the body count mounts, each member of the teeming Dickensian cast's story contains a kernel of the next, like a set of nesting Russian dolls. They are all looking for love or money or redemption or escape: but what each actually discovers is their own true self.
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Imprint: Transworld Digital
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Published: 01/04/2010
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ISBN: 9781409082729
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Length: 360 Minutes
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RRP: £9.00
Reviews
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"An absolute joy to read...the pleasure of One Good Turn lies in the ride, in Atkinson's wry, unvanquished characters, her swooping, savvy, sarcastic prose and authorial joie de vivre."
Guardian
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"Atkinson is frequently very funny...while the tone stays light, the plot continues to darken....manages to be that rarest of things - a good literary novel and a cracking holiday read"
Observer
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"Atkinson, while having fun with the murder-mystery genre, slyly slips us a muted tragedy"
Sunday Telegraph
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"One Good Turn is the most fun I've had with a novel this year"
Guardian
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"Thrillingly addictive...In One Good Turn Atkinson proves quite unique in her ability to fuse emotional drama and thriller...Imagine a Richard Curtis film scripted by Raymond Chandler, both a little enlivened by the collaboration...The mix is embodied by Brodie. Like all good detectives, he is a hero for men and women alike"
The Times
