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Author Atkinson, Kate, author

Title When will there be good news? : a novel / Kate Atkinson
Edition First Back Bay paperback edition
Published New York : Back Bay Books, 2010
©2008
©2008

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 W'BOOL  820.914 A8761 A6/W  AVAILABLE
Description 388 pages, 16 pages ; 22 cm
Summary In Atkinson's third novel to feature ex-cop turned PI Jackson Brodie, unrelated characters and plot lines collide with momentous results. On a country road, six-year-old Joanna Mason is the only survivor of a knife attack that leaves her mother and two siblings dead. Thirty years later, after boarding the wrong train in Yorkshire, Brodie is almost killed when the train crashes. He's saved by 16-year-old Regina Reggie Chase, the nanny of Dr. Joanna Hunter, nee Mason. In the chaos following the crash, Brodie ends up with the wallet of Andrew Decker, the recently released man convicted of murdering the Mason family. Enter DCI Louise Monroe, Brodie's former love interest, who's tracking Decker because of a recent case involving a similar family and crime. When Dr. Hunter disappears, Reggie is convinced she's been kidnapped and enlists the reluctant Brodie to track her down
Notes 16 page reading group guide in back of book
New York Times Best Book of 2008
Subject Missing persons -- Fiction.
Physicians (General practice) -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103390
Genre/Form Fiction.
ISBN 9780316012836 (paperback)