Kate Atkinson kind of backed into mystery writing. She’s an English writer who was better known for her literary novels. Then she kshe wrote Case Histories
And now I’ve got When Will There Be Good News
The shiver: (POV 6 year old girl)
“But the man had a knife, and he kept raising it in the air, so that it shone like silver in the hot afternoon sun. Her mother started to scream. There was blood on her face, on her hands, on her strong legs, on her strawberry dress. Then Joanna realized that her mother wasn’t screaming at the man, she was screaming at her.”
The laugh: (POV 16 year old girl)
Ms. McDonald could probably have got these things herself, as she was still using her car, a blue Saxo that she drove the way that an excitable and nearsighted chimpanzee might have done, accelerating when she should be braking, braking when she should be accelerating, going slow in the fast lane, fast in the slow lane, like someone on an amusement-arcade simulator rather than a real road.”
If you like crime fiction, get this book! If you like character-driven fiction, get this book! Heck, just get it!
