Murder, Train Wreck, Kidnapping....Oh My!

When Will There Be Good News by Kate Atkinson

This book starts out with a bang and never lets up! This is the 3rd in a series of British crime novels by Kate Atkinson. I read the first, "Case Histories", somehow missed the 2nd, "One Good Turn", but realized it didn't matter at all while reading the 3rd one. The book starts out with a mother and two of her three children being murdered in a field. The lone survivor of the slaughter is 6 year old Joanna. Fast forward 30 years and we enter the life of Joanna, now a doctor, a mother and a wife and how her world intertwines with that of her 16 year old nanny, Reggie Chase, an ex-cop named Jackson Brodie, and a savvy female private investigator, Louise Monroe. Everything is tangled together in this story and in someone else's hands, it might have turned out a tangled mess but Atkinson knows what she's doing and she held my interest throughout the whole book. I'd go so far as to call this a page-turner and a nail-biter! I'll probably go backwards and read the 2nd in the series now......see if I missed anything. Highly recommended if you're in the mood for a fast-paced, exciting read.