Death at the Sign of the Rook

The Number One bestseller. Jackson Brodie returns in this brilliantly clever take on the classic country house murder mystery; a homage to writers such as Agatha Christie

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

THE NEW JACKSON BRODIE NOVEL, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SHRINES OF GAIETY

Welcome to Rook Hall.

The stage is set. The players are ready. By night`s end, a murderer will be revealed.

Ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off a bad case of midlife malaise when he is called to a sleepy Yorkshire town, and the seemingly tedious matter of a stolen painting.

But one theft leads to another, including the disappearance of a valuable Turner from Burton Makepeace, home to Lady Milton and her family.

Once a magnificent country house, Burton Makepeace has now partially been converted into a hotel, hosting Murder Mystery weekends.

As paying guests, a vicar, an ex-army officer, impecunious aristocrats, and old friends converge, we are treated a fiendishly clever mystery; one that pays homage to the masters of the genre-from Agatha Christie to Dorothy Sayers.

Brilliantly inventive, with all of Atkinson`s signature wit, wordplay and narrative brio, Death at the Sign of the Rook may be Jackson Brodie`s most outrageous and memorable case yet.