Turn to the better

Kate Atkinson got into the upper league of modern literature on the very first attempt: her debut novel “The Museum of My Secrets” received the prestigious Whitredov Prize, bypassing the “Farewell sigh of Moor” Salman Rushdi, and the Romanov cycle about the private detective Jackson Brody, who managed to fall in love with the Russian reader ( “Crimes of the past”, “turn for the better”, “Wait for good news?”, “A little light, with a dog together”, “Big sky”), Stephen King dubbed “the main detective project of the decade”. The total circulation circulation exceeded three million copies, and on the basis of its first books, the BBC channel released the series “Crimes of the past” with Jackson Isex in the title role.
This time the action takes place in the Scottish capital, flooded by tourists during the famous annual Edinburgh Festival of Arts. Again, Jackson Brody is a witness to the seemingly unrelated episodes: a prominent businessman, under whom the department of economic crimes is already digging with might and main, enters the hospital with a heart attack under very compromising circumstances, casts the body of a girl with earrings-skeletons on the shore, but the tide again He takes him into the sea, despite all the efforts of Brody, who accidentally turned out to be nearby. The local police sees in it at best a liar, or even a suspect