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Title: Well-Written, but Ultimately Just Less Than Fully Satisfying
Review: I enjoy Kate Atkinson's work. She assembles words well and is adept in her portrayals. This book lays out several parallel and potentially overlapping mysteries, with the primary connection being the private investigator. Jackson Brodie is trying to find his way into the life of an investigator. He wants to be hard-boiled but can't quite get there."Case Histories" is a fine read and I enjoyed the book. The problem is that the reader, or at least this reader, can be led to expect some brilliantly clever denouement in which the three mysteries are all shown to be connected. The conclusion didn't happen, and it left a slightly empty feel at the end. It remains a fine read, but slowed in the final furlong and finished a star short of top marks.
