Jackson Brodie
Created by Kate Atkinson

Hailing originally from Yorkshire, Cambridge (and later Edinburgh) private investigator JACKSON BRODIE is many things: an ex-cop, an ex-soldier, an ex-husband, a weekend dad and a man who knows what it's like be dragged through the emotional wringer of life. Which is why this series by Whitbread Award winner Atkinson is so satisfying.

Unapologetically literate and literary, Atkinson (and her detective) never let the reader forget that there are real lives involved here, and real hurt, but she treats them all with warmth, humour and intelligence, as well as compassion and respect.

And Jackson himself is quite a piece of work, himself. A would-be tough guy, he nonetheless wears his big honking empathetic heart of his sleeve, and proves to be all too human at times, fumbling and bumbling his way through life in a melancholic haze. It's either endearing or irritating, depending on his competent you want your detective to be. But he does seem to attract any number of broken and damaged people, particularly women, to him.

The first three novels were adapted by the BBC and aired in 2011 as Case Histories. The Cambridge setting of the books was changed to Edinburgh.

UNDER OATH

  • "Not just the best novel I have read this year...but the best mystery of the decade. There are actually four mysteries, nesting like Russian dolls, and when they begin to fit together, I defy any reader not to feel a combination of delight and amazement. Case Histories is the literary equivalent of a triple axel. I read it once for pleasure and then again just to see how it was done. This is the kind of book you shove in people's faces, saying "You gotta read this!"
    --     Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly

NOVELS

TELEVISION

  • CASE HISTORIES
    (2011, BBC)
    Based on characters created by Kate Atkinson
    Devised for television by Ashley Pharoah
    Writers: Ashley Pharoah, Peter Harness
    Directors: Marc Jobst, Bill Anderson. Dan Zeff
    Produced by Ruby Film and Television in association with Monastic Productions for BBC
    Executive producers: Rebecca Eaton, executive producer for WGBH Boston.
    Filmed in Edinburgh
    Starring Jason Isaacs as JACKSON BRODIE
    Also starring Amanda Abbington, Natasha Little, Fenella Woolgar, Zawe Ashton, Kirsty Mitchell , Sylvia Syms, Phil Davis, Millie Innes
  • "Case Histories (Part 1)" (June 5, 2011)
  • "Case Histories (Part 2)" (June 6, 2011)
  • "One Good Turn (Part 1)" (June 12, 2011)
  • "One Good Turn (Part 2)" (June 13, 2011)
  • "When Will There Be Good News? (Part 1)" (June 19, 2011)
  • "When Will There Be Good News? (Part2)" (June 20, 2011)

Report submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.

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