I’d not read any of Kate Atkinson’s books before, although I’ve seen them riding high in the bestsellers for a while. So I didn’t really know what to expect when I started Case Histories.
What we have is something akin to one of those Barbara Vine or Minnette Walters crime things you see on TV (I know they’re authors, but I haven’t read any work by either writer). Several seemingly unrelated actions take place across a period of time from the early seventies to through to more years in the Cambridgeshire area. Finally we’re introduced to Jackson Brodie, a private investigator, who begins to get involved with some of the people linked with each of the cases.
As things progress, more deep and dark secrets reveal themselves.
I won’t say much else because it’d spoil it. Overall it was a perfectly good book – not great, but not bad either.