![]() ![]() Hers is a performance that demands repeated listens. "Susan Jameson delivers an absolutely stunning performance. ![]() The result is top-notch literature - an unforgettable, unclassifiable read."- Elisabeth Egan, Chicago Sun-Times "CASE HISTORIES combines the suspense of a whodunit with the richly textured plot of a sprawling family saga. "CASE HISTORIES is so exuberant, so empathetic, that it makes most murder-mystery page-turners feel as lifeless as the corpses they're strewn with."- Jacqueline Carey, New York Times Book Review "One of the most enjoyable books in a long time."- Leslie McGill, Kansas City Star By investigating this, the detective uncovers a plot in which the police and the social services worked together to cover the murder of a woman by her police lover and the illegal adoption of their daughter. CASE HISTORIES winds up having more depth and vividness than ordinary thrillers and more thrills than ordinary fiction."- Janet Maslin, New York Times Jackson Brodie is hired to find the birth mother of a young woman who has learnt she is adopted. "Grabs hold of the reader and doesn't let go. I defy any reader not to feel a combination of delight and amazement."- Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly She is not convinced by Joanna's husband Neil's story that they are staying with an aunt. "Not just the best novel I read this year, but the best mystery of the decade. Jackson had tried to save her and is in turn rescued by Reggie,a young nanny who knew the dead woman and wants him to locate her employer Joanna Hunter,a doctor,who disappeared with her baby son. ![]()
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