Death at the Sign of the Rook

Death at the Sign of the RookWelcome 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,

It was supposed to be nicer

and even see the world in a wider variety of colours

And he's purple

'A coming-of-age story filled with magic in language and plot: beautiful and devastating' Observer

From the rubber plantations of Indochina to the massacre at My Lai

before revealing what dreams have taught us about the neural basis of memory and the transformation of memory in recall

where revolutionary technologies such as the World Wide Web were developed

And soon it's impossible to tell quite where the curse ends and Hollywood begins

For more than twenty-five years

Praise for the No

But her story is also about a search for meaning

A transformative artist who has not simply entertained but also empowered millions