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Tracy Waterhouse, ehemalige Polizistin und absolut gesetzestreue Bürgerin, kauft ein Kind. Niemand ist davon mehr überrascht als sie selbst. Zwar handelt es sich dabei eigentlich um eine Rettungsaktion, dennoch ist das Ganze keineswegs legal, und Tracy ist von Stund an auf der Flucht. Da kommt es ihr höchst ungelegen, dass ein gewisser Jackson Brodie, Privatdetektiv, sie unbedingt wegen eines 30 Jahre alten Falles sprechen möchte. Damals ging es auch um ein Kind, doch der jungen Polizistin waren die Hände gebunden. Umso mehr ist Tracy heute entschlossen, das Richtige zu tun, koste es, was es wolle ...

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The fourth Jackson Brodie novel - brilliant literary crime from the No.1 bestselling author of Life After Life.

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´Crime has given Atkinson the freedom to write an ambitious, panoramic work, full of excitement, colour and compassion´ Sunday Times

The fourth Jackson Brodie novel: literary crime from the prizewinning number-one bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription.

A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a shocking impulse purchase. That one moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy´s humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn.

Witnesses to Tracy´s outrageous exchange in the Merrion Centre in Leeds are Tilly, an elderly actress teetering on the brink of her own disaster, and Jackson Brodie, who has returned to his home county in search of someone else´s roots. All three characters learn that the past is never history and that no good deed goes unpunished.

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"Crime has given Atkinson the freedom to write an ambitious, panoramic work, full of excitement, colour and compassion" Sunday Times

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Kate Atkinson is one of the world´s foremost novelists. She won the Costa Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her three critically lauded and prizewinning novels set around World War II are Life After Life, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award), and Transcription. She was appointed MBE for services to literature in 2011.

Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie returns in her new novel Big Sky.

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