Death at the Sign of the Rook
A Novel
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WELCOME TO ROOK HALL. THE STAGE IS SET. THE PLAYERS ARE READY. BY NIGHT'S END, A MURDERER WILL BE REVEALED.
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.
But Jackson soon uncovers a string of unsolved art thefts that lead him down a dizzying spiral of disguise and deceit to Burton Makepeace, a formerly magnificent estate now partially converted to a hotel hosting Murder Mystery weekends.
As paying guests, impecunious aristocrats and old friends collide, we are treated to Atkinson's most charming and fiendishly clever mystery yet, one that pays homage to the masters of the genre--from Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers to the modern era of Knives Out and Only Murders in the Building.
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.
About this Author
KATE ATKINSON is one of the world's preeminent novelists, whose most recent stand-alone work was the critically acclaimed Shrines of Gaiety, set in the aftermath of the First World War. She won the Whitbread (Costa) Book of the Year Award with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her three critically lauded and prizewinning novels set around the Second World War are Life After Life, a worldwide bestseller, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award) and Transcription. 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. Brodie later returned in the novel Big Sky. Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Reviews
"This novel sees Atkinson at her most playful. She impresses with her tightly constructed, satisfyingly complex mystery laced with Agatha Christie references, and with her observations of modern life and human nature. Best of all, though, is when the spotlight is on her protagonist. Brodie might have 'climbed to the wrong side of sixty' but he is still a force to be reckoned with and a compelling presence on the page." --Boston Globe
"The enormous appeal of the series rests in part on Jackson's melancholy gallantry set against a scathing depiction of Britain in decline. But its singular greatness lies in Atkinson's celebration of coincidence and fortuity, her wayward plots whose threads become cunningly entwined and, not least, her mordant wit." --Washington Post
"What may be Atkinson's funniest book yet." --Minnesota Star Tribune
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