When Will There Be Good News?, Kate Atkinson, 2008, Little Brown and Co., Genre: Fiction. 388 pages. Finished 2/24/13.
Started Early, Took My Dog, Kate Atkinson, 2011, Little Brown and Co., Genre: Fiction. 371 pages. Finished 3/4/13.
LesOpinion: Although these three fine novels by Kate Atkinson revolve around mysteries and deploy the same central cast of characters, I did not refer to them as "Mystery" so that you, Gentle Reader, would not think of them as simple genre pieces following a recipe, churned out annually to please a commercial audience. No. These are literate, layered, page-turners. They are brooding and dark and let go with the most fleeting moments of human redemption. I only wish there were more on the shelf.
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