Death at the Sign of the Rook: A Jackson Brodie Book - Kate Atkinson

KATE ATKINSON is one of the world's foremost novelists whose most recent novel was the critically acclaimed Shrines of Gaiety , set in the aftermath of the First World War. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum . Her three critically lauded and prize- winning novels set around the Second World War are Life After Life , a worldwide bestseller, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award) and Transcription . Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.