And above all, this novel is filled with relationships. These are just a couple of examples of how I was drawn into the character’s lives – their thoughts, feelings, and relationships. They were now both much richer than their fellow alumni, a fact which Murdo said, ‘Just goes to show.’ Gloria thought that it didn’t go to show anything except, possibly, that they were greedier and more ruthless than their former classmates.
Graham and Murdo had attended the same Edinburgh school, an expensive education that had put a civil polish on their basically loutish characters. Pam was married to Murdo Miller, Gloria’s own husband’s closest friend. Pam wasn’t what Gloria would have called a friend, just someone she had known for so long that she had given up trying to get rid of her. hadn’t completely ruled out the possibility that one day he might experience a conversion – a sudden lifting of the veil, an opening of his heart – although he thought it more likely that he was damned to be for ever on the road to Damascus, the road most travelled. As I became immersed in the story, all of the characters were revealed in depth – partly through their interactions with others, and partly through their thoughts and reminiscences. In just a few sentences we receive a great deal of information about the characters, but Ms Atkinson doesn’t stop there. If there is more, beyond the usual 3-D for characters, then it is definitely found in this novel. I like how we discover so much about the characters in this novel. In this second of the Jackson Brodie series, Kate Atkinson’s writing once again brings a fascinating cast of characters to our attention in a plot that has hidden links and connections on all fronts. With a keen eye for the excesses of modern life, a warm understanding of the frailties of the human heart, and a genius for plots that turn and twist, Atkinson has written a novel that delights and surprises from the first page to the last. Kate Atkinson "writes such fluid, sparkling prose that an ingenious plot almost seems too much to ask, but we get it anyway," writes Laura Miller for Salon. Each of them hiding a secret, each looking for love or money or redemption or escape, they all play a role in driving Jackson out of retirement and into the middle of several mysteries that intersect in one sinister scheme. The event thrusts Jackson into the orbit of the wife of an unscrupulous real estate tycoon, a washed-up comedian, a successful crime novelist, a mysterious Russian woman, and a female police detective. Jackson Brodie, ex-cop, ex-private detective, new millionaire, is among the bystanders.
On a beautiful summer day, crowds lined up outside a theater witness a sudden act of extreme road rage: a tap on a fender triggers a nearly homicidal attack.
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