one good turn: a novel (jackson brodie book 2)  on a beautiful summer day, crowds lined up outside a theater witness a sudden act of extreme road rage: a tap on a fender triggers a nearly homicidal attack. jackson brodie, ex-cop, ex-private detective, new millionaire, is among the bystanders. <br /><br /> the event thrusts jackson into the orbit of the wife of an unscrupulous real estate tycoon, a washed-up comedian, a successful crime novelist, a mysterious russian woman, and a female police detective. each of them hiding a secret, each looking for love or money or redemption or escape, they all play a role in driving jackson out of retirement and into the middle of several mysteries that intersect in one sinister scheme. <br /><br /> kate atkinson "writes such fluid, sparkling prose that an ingenious plot almost seems too much to ask, but we get it anyway," writes laura miller for <i>salon</i>. with a keen eye for the excesses of modern life, a warm understanding of the frailties of the human heart, and a genius for plots that turn and twist, atkinson has written a novel that delights and surprises from the first page to the last.