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When Will There Be Good News?

Kate Atkinson

#5232 of 8,085 books · #1760 in Crime & Thriller

Shortlisted for the Gold Dagger Award (CWA Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year) (2009).

When Will There Be Good News? won Richard & Judy's Best Read. In a quiet corner of rural Devon, a six-year-old girl witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison. In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie, wise beyond her years, works as a nanny for a G.P. But her employer has disappeared with her baby, and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware that hurtling towards her is a former acquaintance – Jackson Brodie – himself on a journey that becomes fatally interrupted.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781409093671
Topics
Murder investigationMissing personsFamily secrets

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