When Will There Be Good News?

V vysshuyu ligu sovremennoj literatury Kejt Atkinson popala s pervoj zhe popytki: ee debyutnyj roman "Muzej moih tajn" poluchil prestizhnuyu Uitbredovskuyu premiyu, obojdya "Proshchal'nyj vzdoh mavra" Salmana Rushdi, a cikl romanov o chastnom detektive Dzheksone Broudi, uspevshij polyubit'sya i rossijskomu chitatelyu ("Prestupleniya proshlogo", "Povorot k luchshemu", "ZHdat' li dobryh vestej?", "CHut' svet, s sobakoyu vdvoem"), Stiven King okrestil "glavnym detektivnym proektom desyatiletiya". Summarnyj tirazh cikla prevysil tri milliona ekzemplyarov, a na osnove pervyh ego knig telekanal Bi-bi-si vypustil serial "Prestupleniya proshlogo" s Dzheksonom Ajzeksom v glavnoj roli. V romane "ZHdat' li dobryh vestej?" dejstvie proiskhodit ne v universitetskom Kembridzhe i ne sredi tolp turistov, s"ekhavshihsya na Edinburgskij festival', hotya shotlandskaya stolica vnov' obespechivaet zhivopisnyj fon proiskhodyashchim sobytiyam. A tolchkom k nim posluzhilo koshmarnoe prestuplenie tridcatiletnej davnosti, vskolyhnuvshee tihij Devonshir i vsyu Angliyu; i vot osuzhdennyj ubijca, otsidev polozhennoe, vyhodit na svobodu. Tem vremenem propadaet bez vesti doktor Trapper s malen'kim rebenkom - odnako ee ischeznovenie trevozhit, sudya po vsemu, tol'ko ee ovcharku Sejdi i shestnadcatiletnyuyu bebisittershu Redzhi. A starshij detektiv-inspektor Luiza Monro ozabochena drugoj propazhej - eshche ne znaya, chto Dzhekson Broudi vot-vot opyat' vorvetsya v ee zhizn', prichem na vsekh parah (v bukval'nom smysle).

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