The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characters and a setting that even Agatha Christie might recognize - a vicar, an Army major, a Dowager, a sleuth and his sidekick - except that the sleuth is Jackson Brodie, and the 'sidekick' is DC Reggie Chase. The crumbling house - Burton Makepeace and its chatelaine the Dowager Lady Milton - suffered the loss of their last remaining painting of any value, a Turner, some years ago. The housekeeper, Sophie, who disappeared the same night, is suspected of stealing it. Jackson, a reluctant hostage to the snowstorm, has been investigating the theft of another painting:The Woman with a Weasel, a portrait, taken from the house of an elderly widow, on the morning she died.The suspect this time is the widow's carer, Melanie. Is this a coincidence or is there a connection? And what secrets does theWoman with a Weaselhold? The puzzle is Jackson's to solve.And let's not forget that a convicted murderer is on the run on the moors around Burton Makepeace. All the while, in a bid to make money, Burton Makepeace is determined to keep hosting a shambolic Murder Mystery that acts as a backdrop while the real drama is being played out in the house. A brilliantly plotted, supremely entertaining, and utterly compulsivetour de forcefrom a great writer at the height of her powers.

Série: Jackson Brodie

Další detektivka s Jacksonem Brodiem. Před třiceti lety došlo v idylickém zákoutí venkovském Devonu k hrůznému zločinu. Šestiletá Joanna byla u toho. A teď má pachatel vyjít na svobodu. Předčasně zmoudřelá šestnáctiletá Reggie pracuje v Edinburghu jako chůva pro sympatickou lékařku. Ta jednoho dne zmizela i s děckem, ale všem kromě Reggie jako by to bylo jedno. A na druhém konci města vrchní inspektorka Louise Monroeová také někoho pohřešuje. Zatím netuší, že ji pátrání svede dohromady se starým známým Jacksonem Brodiem - mužem, jehož život je jako jízda na horské dráze.

1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time.At the heart of this glittering world is notorious Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven whose character has been forged in the crucible of the Somme. But success breeds enemies, and Nellie's empire faces threats from without and within. For beneath the dazzle of Soho's gaiety, there is a dark underbelly, a world in which it is all too easy to become lost.With her unique Dickensian flair, Kate Atkinson brings together a glittering cast of characters in a truly mesmeric novel that captures the uncertainty and mutability of life; of a world in which nothing is quite as it seems.

The first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a dazzling array of eleven interconnected tales from the bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After LifeIn this first full collection since Not the End of the World, we meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a man whose luck changes when a horse speaks to him.With clockwork intricacy, inventiveness and sharp social observation, Kate Atkinson conjures a feast for the imagination, a constantly changing multiverse in which nothing is quite as it seems.____________Praise for Kate Atkinson:'Inexhaustibly ingenious' HILARY MANTEL'Simply one of the best writers working today, anywhere in the world' GILLIAN FLYNN'A brilliant and profoundly original writer' RACHEL CUSK'Atkinson is a novelist of unrivalled immediacy, authority, and skill' FINANCIAL TIMES'Atkinson has a plotter's mind: intricate, clever, satisfying' THE SUNDAY TIMES'One of our finest novelists' SUNDAY EXPRESS'Kate Atkinson is an international treasure: She creates characters with the ease of Agatha Christie, makes narratives out of mysteries and mystery out of narrative, and has written some of the most memorable scenes and dialogue I've encountered in the past decade' VANITY FAIR'I can think of few writers who can make the ordinary collide with the extraordinary to such beguiling effect' OBSERVER'One of the country's most innovative, exciting and intelligent authors.' SCOTSMAN

Mladičká Juliet Armstrongová se v r. 1940 přimotá do světa špionáže a dostane za úkol sledovat aktivity britských sympatizantů s fašismem. Není z toho nijak nadšená, práce jí často připadá úmorná, navíc v ní vzbuzuje strach. Když válka skončí, s úlevou považuje tuto kapitolu svého života za uzavřenou. O deset let později, kdy pracuje jako producentka BBC, se však nečekaně vynoří postavy z minulosti. Teď je to jiná válka, na jiném poli, ale Juliet se opět ocitne v ohrožení. Musí skládat účty a poznává, že žádný čin nezůstane bez následků. Přepis je moderní román o výjimečné síle, důvtipu a empatii.Román Přepis má hloubku i podstatu, je to moderní román o výjimečné síle, důvtipu a empatii. "Kate Atkinsonová je skvělá spisovatelka. Až budu velký, chci psát jako ona. Román Transcription dokazuje, že je na vrcholu tvůrčích sil. Najdete v něm plno nádherných, jemných, přesných vět a charakteristik. Je to špionážní román, který staví celý žánr na hlavu. Skvělý výkon, jako vždycky." - Matt Haig "Nevyčerpatelně geniální." - Hilary Mantel "Kate Atkinsonová je autorka, která mě přivedla k psaní." - Jojo Moyesová "Taková ta knížka, kterou lidem strkáte do obličeje se slovy: "Tohle si musíš přečíst!‘" - Stephen King

Soukromý detektiv Jackson Brodie nemá jednoduchý život. Manželka se s ním rozvedla a jeho dcerku teď vychovává cizí hejhula, bolí ho zuby a má protivnou sekretářku. Navíc většinu času tráví poněkud nudným sledováním (domněle) nevěrných manželek. Bezprostředně za sebou se ale objeví tři z policejního hlediska "mrtvé" případy. Dvě excentrické sestry ho vyhledají kvůli pětatřicet let pohřešované mladší sestřičce, obézní právník jej žádá, aby po deseti letech našel brutálního vraha jeho milované dcery, a třetí případ mu připraví sestra ženy, která nezvládla mateřství a odloučený život na venkově a v zoufalství zabila manžela sekerou. Detektiv Brodie dovede všechny tři případy, které se začnou vzájemně prolínat, k rozuzlení. Není to happy end, ale příběh, který rozhodně zaujme čtenáře psychologických románů i detektivek.

A BRILLIANT NEW LITERARY CRIME NOVEL FROM NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER KATE ATKINSON: JACKSON BRODIE MAKES A HIGLY ANTICIPATED RETURN Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an ageing Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia. It's picturesque, but there's something darker lurking behind the scenes. Jackson's current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for his suspicious wife, is fairly standard-issue, but a chance encounter with a desperate man on a crumbling cliff leads him into a sinister network-and back across the path of someone from his past. Old secrets and new lies intersect in this breathtaking novel by one of the most dazzling and surprising writers at work today.

In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever. Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence. Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy. It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of this country's most exceptional writers.

Angličanka Ursula Toddová zemře těsně po narození jedné únorové noci roku 1910. V následující kapitole se téže únorové noci narodí znovu, přičemž tentokrát přežije, aby podstoupila celou řadu tragických, mnohdy heroických konců. Tak jako na divadle padá opona, v Ursulině příběhu "padá tma", tedy smrt. Ta ovšem neznamená temný konec, ale je příslibem dalších, neomezených variant a pokračování. Není divu, že Ursula mívá silné pocity déja vu; je totiž obdařena možností prožívat tytéž chvíle a stavy znovu a znovu a snažit se zabránit osobním i dějinným katastrofám. Netrpělivě očekávaný román, jenž se stále drží na předních místech mezinárodních žebříčků a s přehledem poráží knihy J. K. Rowlingové i Padesát odstínů šedi.

The PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, now a major BBC1 DRAMA SERIES starring Thomasin McKenzie, Sian Clifford and James McArdle, directed by BAFTA award-winning John Crowley.''Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound... one of the best novels I''ve read this century'' Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of GONE GIRL''A box of delights ... it grips the reader''s imagination on the first page and never lets go.'' HILARY MANTEL, author of THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT___________________________________What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath.During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale.What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to?Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life''s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.____________________''Merging family saga with a fluid sense of time and an extraordinarily vivid sense of history at its most human level. A dizzying and dazzling tour de force'' Daily Mail''Absolutely brilliant...it reminded me a bit of her first book Behind the Scenes at the Museum, which is one of my most favourite books ever.'' Marian Keyes, author of Rachel, Again''An exceptional writer'' Guardian''[A] magnificently tender and humane novel'' Observer''A ferociously clever writer...a big, bold novel that is enthralling, entertaining'' New Statesman''Exceptionally captivating'' New York Times''Truly brilliant...Think of Audrey Niffenegger''s The Time Traveler''s Wife or David Nicholl''s One Day.. a rare book that you want to start again the minute you have finished.'' The Times

'An astonishingly complex and moving literary detective story that made me sob but also snort with laughter. It's the sort of novel you have to start rereading the minute you've finished it' Guardian The first Jackson Brodie novel: literary crime from the prizewinning, number-one bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription. Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - Lost on the left, Found on the right - and the two never seem to balance. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life haunted by a family tragedy, Jackson attempts to unravel three disparate case histories and begins to realise that in spite of apparent diversity, everything is connected...

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Další detektivka s Jacksonem Brodiem. Před třiceti lety došlo v idylickém zákoutí venkovském Devonu k hrůznému zločinu. Šestiletá Joanna byla u toho. A teď má pachatel vyjít na svobodu. Předčasně zmoudřelá šestnáctiletá Reggie pracuje v Edinburghu jako chůva pro sympatickou lékařku. Ta jednoho dne zmizela i s děckem, ale všem kromě Reggie jako by to bylo jedno. A na druhém konci města vrchní inspektorka Louise Monroeová také někoho pohřešuje. Zatím netuší, že ji pátrání svede dohromady se starým známým Jacksonem Brodiem - mužem, jehož život je jako jízda na horské dráze.