Friday, May 27, 2011

Started early, took my dog, by Kate Atkinson

In this fourth outing, PI Jackson Brodie, still reeling from the defection of his girlfriend (with his money), has taken on finding the British biological parents of a woman raised in Australia. Tracy, an aging cop, unexpectedly “adopts” the child she sees being abused by a known prostitute and finds herself on the run. A small dog, similarly being abused, ends up in Jackson’s car, permanently. Meanwhile, an older actress, drifting (very convincingly) into early Alzheimers gets caught up in something she misunderstands and the decades old cold case of a dead prostitute comes back to haunt many. Before the book ends, these and other seemingly disparate plot lines have been cunningly interwoven, except maybe the dog – he just is. 384 pp.

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