Death at the Sign of the Rook

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Beschreibung

<b>THE #1 <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> BESTSELLER. </b><b><i>DISCOVER THE NEW JACKSON BRODIE NOVEL, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SHRINES OF GAIETY</i></b><br><br>'How <b>delicious </b>to have Jackson Brodie back, this time in a story that starts off in Agatha Christie's world but soon becomes a landscape that <b>could only have been crafted from the pen of the incomparable Kate Atkinson'</b> <i>Ian Rankin</i><br><br>'Christie would be proud . . . I defy you not to snort with laughter as the novel progresses to its farcical denouement. Atkinson is <b>brilliant</b>'<i> Observer</i><br><br><i>*****</i><p><b>Welcome to Rook Hall.<br><br>The stage is set. The players are ready. By night's end, a murderer will be revealed.</b><br><br>Ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off a bad case of midlife malaise when he is called to a sleepy Yorkshire town, and the seemingly tedious matter of a stolen painting.<br><br>But one theft leads to another, including the disappearance of a valuable Turner from Burton Makepeace, home to Lady Milton and her family.<br><br>Once a magnificent country house, Burton Makepeace has now partially been converted into a hotel, hosting Murder Mystery weekends.<br><br>As paying guests, a vicar, an ex-army officer, impecunious aristocrats, and old friends converge, we are treated a fiendishly clever mystery; one that pays homage to the masters of the genre-from Agatha Christie to Dorothy Sayers.<br><br><b>Brilliantly inventive, with all of Atkinson's signature wit, wordplay and narrative brio, Death at the Sign of the Rook may be Jackson Brodie's most outrageous and memorable case yet.<br><br>****</b><br><br>'<b>Sharp, droll</b> and <b>knowing</b> as ever, Atkinson has <b>huge fun</b> with the set-up; the supporting cast is terrific, and the rueful Brodie, ever more mindful of the passing years, feels like an old friend.' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>'<b>Delicious</b> character studies... <b>fine writing, wit, originality </b>and eccentricity - even as it induces

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780857526588

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

26 x 153 x 234 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Doubleday