Shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award, 2004. Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet, Lost on the left, Found on the right, and the two never seem to balance.
His days are full of people clamouring for answers and explanations. A jealous husband suspects his wife. Two spinster sister make a shocking find.
A solicitor investigates an old murder.... Ingeniously plotted, full of suspense and heartbreak, Case Histories is a novel that conveys the mysteries of life, its insanities and its hilarities.
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