2.24.2012

just finished reading...

Another installment in the Jackson Brodie series and another literary novel with a mystery at it's heart. From the publisher:

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. (Book Depository)

It's not a typical page-turner but I found I couldn't put it down. It's about love, death, and the search for self. And there are literary references that really kept me on my toes.

I love Jackson Brodie and felt that there wasn't enough of him in this story. But the other characters are so human and compelling that the story is satisfying. What I didn't like was shift in time, it was a little confusing to begin a section in 1975 and find myself in the present in the next sentence. Although, that might be the transition to the e-book, losing some spacing.

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