Death at the Sign of the Rook is Kate Atkinson's sixth Jackson Brodie novel - Helen Clyne Following the pandemic-induced and Richard Osman-led boom in “cosy crime”, several writers who might be ...

Over the course of her career, Kate Atkinson has proved to be an ambidextrous writer, equally skilled in two forms of fiction. Not content with producing critically acclaimed literary novels such as ...

After a five-year absence, Jackson Brodie returns in “Death at the Sign of the Rook.” Readers of the mega-selling mystery series will be thrilled, but is Kate Atkinson? Agatha Christie fans will ...

In her novel “Big Sky” (2019), Kate Atkinson delighted many readers by bringing back Jackson Brodie, the private investigator central to three of her best-known mysteries, a decade after he’d last ...

Atkinson’s deliciously witty sixth adventure for Jackson Brodie (after Big Sky) finds the British PI entangled in a weekend-long murder mystery party. Brodie’s newest clients are Ian and Hazel Padgett ...

The sixth novel about private detective Jackson Brodie is a compelling mystery and a witty romp through the genre’s tropes. Colette is the former books editor for the Tampa Bay Times. She now writes ...