Kate Atkinson is one of the most respected and popular authors of modern Britain. Her debut novel won the prestigious Whitbread Prize, beating out many eminent candidates, such as Salman Rushdie with his The Moor's Farewell Sigh. However, real fame came to her with the publication of Crimes of the Past, the first book in the series about the Cambridge private detective Jackson Brody. The novel caused a storm of delight among critics, colleagues, and the general reader; Stephen King himself became one of the most ardent promoters of Atkinson’s work. So, in “Crimes of the Past,” Jackson Brody will have to deal with cases that the police have long written off in the archives: about the mysterious overnight disappearance of a little girl from her parents’ garden; about the unmotivated murder of the daughter of a famous lawyer who helped him in the office; and about a bloody episode of domestic violence in a young family living on a farm. It would seem that there is nothing in common between all of them, and the traces have disappeared for a long time, but the threads, intertwined, stretch into the present and in the most unexpected way bring the heroes together - each with their own skeletons in the closets...