One Good Turn

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In Edinburgh, during the restless heat of festival season, a queue for a lunchtime show becomes the scene of a road rage attack so violent it almost turns homicidal. The people who witness it are strangers at first, caught in the same sudden rupture, but the incident begins to alter the course of each life it touches.

Jackson Brodie, ex army, ex police, ex private detective, is there as an innocent bystander. That distance does not last. Before long, he is drawn into the widening disorder, and finds himself treated not as witness, but as suspect.

As the body count rises, the story moves through a teeming cast, each life containing the seed of another, like a set of Russian dolls. They are looking for love, money, redemption, or escape, but what waits beneath the chaos is harder to avoid: the truth of who they are.