When Will There Be Good News?

By Kate Atkinson

Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

When Will There Be Good News? is a 2008 novel by Kate Atkinson and the third featuring private investigator Jackson Brodie, after Case Histories and One Good Turn. It was adapted for BBC television. Joanna Hunter survived a massacre of her family as a child and became a doctor in Edinburgh, but she suddenly goes missing. Reggie Chase, a resourceful sixteen-year-old who works as her nanny, refuses to give up on her. Meanwhile Brodie is caught in a train crash, and the threads come together in a twisting story.

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