I look forward to many authors' books with pleasure and interest, but Atkinson is such a virtuoso that my brain starts fizzing like a glass of bubbly even before I crack the covers. 'Every time I hear Kate Atkinson has a new novel on the way, I'm filled with delight. Future installments are well worth waiting for.' - Janet Maslin, New York Times Whatever she goes on to write, she leaves Jackson Brodie at a suspenseful and pivotal moment. Atkinson remains a wonderful stylist and Grade A schemer.She was never confined to the crime genre, has written in assorted other modes and excels at them all. Atkinson writes passages that simply have to be read twice, once when you first travel through the book and then later, when you want to see just how she tricked you.Ms.

They are in some respects mystery novels, but they're written with a literary skill uncommon in that genre, and in a mode - the tragicomic - that few but the most adept novelists can pull off in any genre.'- Laura Miller, Salon 'Mold-breaking.Each one of these books, including this latest, is a delight: an intricate construction that assembles itself before the reader's eyes, populated by idiosyncratic, multidimensional characters and written with shrewd, mordant grace. 'Wonderful.full of artful digressions and unexpected turns, but it amply makes good on its obligations as a mystery novel to explain the who, what and why.' - Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal 'Mixing wry wit and gritty realism, Atkinson deftly smudges the border between literary and detective fiction-with complex, compelling characters negotiating a maze of grisly violence, dark secrets, and shadowy dangers.'- Karen Holt, O, The Oprah Magazine 'I can't take my nose out of Kate Atkinson's new thriller, Started Early, Took My Dog.'- Alex Beam, The Boston Globe 'Magnificently plotted.In the author's signature multilayered style, she shifts between past and present.Atkinson injects wit even in the bleakest moments.yet never loses her razor-sharp edge.'- Publishers Weekly, starred review Case Histories.is a classic.Atkinson's views of contemporary society can be bleak, but she has an amazing eye for kids, dogs and human fallibility.' - Mary Ann Gwinn, The Seattle Times

' are an entrancing hybrid of the literary novel/detective story. 'The sleuthing is less important than Atkinson's fascinating take on the philosophical and emotional dimensions of her characters' lives.'- Kirkus odyssey as a new parent to a waif dressed in a ragged fairy costume, relayed with both tenderness and wry wit, must be one of the grandest love affairs in crime fiction.For its singular melding of radiant humor and dark deeds, this is must-reading for literary crime-fiction fans.'- Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist, starred review 'Brilliant.Atkinson seamlessly weaves together in a plot driven by coincidence and a diamond-hard recognition of man's darker nature.

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