by Kate Atkinson
I have read several books by this author and have enjoyed them all. This one is another in the series about the former police inspector Jackson Brodie. He is trying to determine if a child is his or not but somehow seems to be on a train going the wrong way. The train crashes and it at first is thought that he isa recently released murderer. He has amnesia and believes people at first.
The murderer actually murdered a mother and two of her children for no reason several decades before. One of the children was able to get away and is now a successful doctor. When the prisoner is released from prison she is notified of his release. The woman is married to a shady businessman.
As the story goes on Jackson Brodie continues to use the ID of the murderer and the police are trying to track him down. The story follows the police trying to track down Jackson, as the murderer, and the real murderer. The story gets complicated as the doctor's husband sees a few of his businesses damaged or set on fire as another con man wants to take over the territory.
One of the main characters in the book is a sad orphan girl who has been hired to babysit the doctor's baby. The little girl is the only one who insists that the doctor has been kidnapped when the doctor disappears. The police assume she was kidnapped by the murderer but she was actually kidnapped by associates of her husband. Eventually the young girl is able to convince the police and Jackson to help her find the doctor. The poor girl has a brother who is a criminal and she ends up getting her family home trashed and then set on fire by bad guys looking for her brother. The girl is dismayed when the doctor's husband tells her his wife has gone visit an aunt. The girl doesn't believe him especially when she sees that the doctor did not change out of her work suit and her car is still in the garage.
It was an interesting read that kept you guessing. I think it was more interesting than her most recent mystery book, Blue Sky.
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