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, Foundon the right - and the two never seem to balance.

Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life haunted by a family tragedy, Jackson attempts to unravel three disparate case histories and begins to realise that in spite of apparent diversity, everything is connected...

Kate Atkinsonwon the Costa (formerly the Whitbread) Book of the Year prize with her first novel,Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her bestselling novels include the four featuring former detective Jackson Brodie which became the BBC television seriesCase Histories, starring Jason Isaacs. Her 2013 novelLife After Lifespent a record number of weeks on top of the bestsellers lists on both sides of the Atlantic, and won the South Bank Sky Arts Literature Prize and the Costa Novel Award, a prize Kate Atkinson won again in 2015 forA God in Ruins. Her new novelTranscriptioncomes out in September 2018.

The first Jackson Brodie novel by the author of When Will There Be Good News?, bestselling literary crime from a master storyteller.