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One Good Turn

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One Good Turn

By: Kate Atkinson
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
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It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident--an incident 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 suspect.

With Case Histories, Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In One Good Turn, she takes her masterful plotting one step further. Like a set of Russian dolls, each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last.

Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ever with Atkinson, what each one actually discovers is his or her true self.

Unpausable and triumphant, One Good Turn is a sharply intelligent listen that is also percipient, funny, and totally satisfying.

©2006 Kate Atkinson (P)2015 Random House Audiobooks
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A true thriller

A very good story with a lot of twists. A bit slow in the beginning, but makes up for it in a twirl of an ending. Special thanks to the very good narrator.

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Fantastic audio book

This was such a treat of a story to listen to on all the long drives we've done lately. We hung on every word and revelled in Steven Crossley's delivery. Highly recommended.

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Expected more of a twist

I love how Kate Atkinson writes so beautifully about such bleak and seedy things. I loved the performance and I loved the characters. I was a little disappointed at how she tied up the threads in the end, though. Still a lovely and engaging story.

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Good writing but too much woolgathering

I like the Atkinson novels but in this case I was a bit disappointed, the technique she use of many chatacthers telling the story is ok but it has ben used too much and the story has lost some suspense. I have 4 stars because she can write and create a good setting.

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A Chore to Read

Finishing this book was a chore. I enjoyed the first Jackson Brodie outing, 'Case Histories', but I am deeply disappointed by the second one. The whole novel is dragged down by the interminable interior monologues of unlikeable characters . "Dead as a door nail. Why a door nail? Does a door nail have a special quality of deadness?" and so on. Action is rare, stakes are low and the payoff is unrewarding. Brodie comes over as a pathetic character, robbed of power to act by the fact that he is no longer a member of the police force. I finished it because I was damned if I was going to waste a credit but honestly it wasn't worth the effort.

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