Kate Atkinson got into the big league of modern literature on her first try: her debut novel “The Museum of My Secrets” received the prestigious Whitbread Prize, beating “The Moor’s Farewell Sigh” by Salman Rushdie, and the series of novels about private detective Jackson Brody, which managed to fall in love with Russian readers (“Crimes of the Past”, “A Turn for the Better”, “Should We Expect Good News?”, “It’s Daylight, Together with a Dog” - and now “Big Sky”), Stephen King dubbed it “the main detective project of the decade.” The total circulation of the series exceeded three million copies, and based on his first books, the BBC television channel released the series Crimes of the Past with Jackson Isaacs in the title role. Jackson Brody settled in a tiny seaside village in North Yorkshire, where his son sometimes keeps him company and a decrepit Labrador, and sadly awaiting his daughter's wedding. While doing the routine work of a private investigator—mostly gathering evidence of adultery—Jackson one day encounters a completely desperate man on a crumbling cliff. Having given him a helping hand in the literal and figurative sense, Jackson inevitably gets involved in the investigation of terrible crimes that have been happening for many years under the noses of the police, and they are committed by the most decent and respected people. At the same time as Jackson, this ominous tangle called the “magic circle” is being unraveled by his old Edinburgh friend, to whom he owes his life, the erudite and by no means little Reggie Deech... “A magical - and magically addictive - world of intersecting paths, insidious plans and amazing coincidences. Incredibly exciting and touching" (Sunday Mirror). For the first time in Russian! Attention! Contains profanity!