![]() ![]() Like Jackson, Tracy is a loner who finds retirement unbearable. Jackson’s investigation brings him into contact with another retired police officer, Tracy Waterhouse. ![]() He has more of a role in Took My Dog than he did in 2010’s When Will There Be Good News? but he remains a lone wolf, save the acquisition of the title’s dog, a Yorkshire Terrier bearing the outsized moniker The Ambassador. But to ask is to invite trouble, and Jackson finds himself in the sorts of pickles-none very pleasant–that he’s encountered in the past three Brodie adventures. Depending on who is asked, Carol had one child, possibly two. One victim, Carol Braithwaite, elicits particular anxiety. (Scotland Yard scandal, anyone?) The year 1975 surfaces repeatedly, when a serial killer dubbed “The Ripper” targeted prostitutes. ![]() His digging upsets several uneasy consciences, many of them current and retired members of the police force. He’s been asked by one Hope McMaster to locate her birth family. Jackson, retired from the police force, has gone into private detective work. Kate Atkinson’s fourth installment of the complex, compulsively readable Jackson Brodie mysteries, Started Early, Took My Dog caused me to miss my BART stop last week, leaving me sheepishly backtracking, book in hand. ![]()
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