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Case Histories by Kate Atkinson5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() One of the cases is solved by one phone-call. Coyote attempt to kill someone by dynamiting his house?) * The detective does virtually no detecting - probably just as well, because by the time the third case comes his way, we're almost 2/3 through the novel. * There are wild events that are more appropriate to a Tom Clancy novel or a Roadrunner cartoon (does anybody except Wile E. * There are plot points that come out of nowhere (Brody's inheritance, for example). ![]() * There are coincidences at a level to make Dickens blush. Unfortunately, at any higher level than that, this book is awful. Nothing particularly spectacular, but nothing wince-worthy either. I'll start with the positive - on a sentence-by-sentence level, Atkinson is a solid writer. Bad literary fiction, awful mystery story ![]()
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