![]() "When Will There Be Good News?" begins with an eruption of bloody and unfathomable brutality in the Devonshire countryside, then jumps forward 30 years, to contemporary Edinburgh. ![]() You don't need to have read the earlier two books to appreciate this one, but I can't think of any reason to deny yourself the delights of all three. The latest is "When Will There Be Good News?" and it is, like its two predecessors, a work of fancy, genre-bending footwork in which a rueful, cranky, modern comedy-of-manners dances an intricate minuet with an unlikely partner: a kidnapping plot. English novelist Kate Atkinson has been fruitfully exploring the chasm between the two for several years now, inventing new ways to write about murder and its aftermath in three books featuring the same protagonist, Jackson Brodie. ![]() In real life, violent crime is a horror in popular fiction it's the occasion for light entertainment. ![]()
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