Death at the Sign of the Rook

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 the Woman with a Weasel hold? 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 compulsive tour de force from a great writer at the height of her powers.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Atkinson, Atkinson Kate
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.08.2024
• EAN: 9780857526588
• ISBN: 978-0-85752-658-8
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 234 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Jackson Brodie
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; England, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Literary, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary