![]() ![]() In the case of Atkinson’s crime fiction, however, it strikes me as a singularly poor one. So perhaps “cozy” is never an exact fit where crime fiction is concerned. There’s bound to be a fine line between comfortable, reassuring familiarity and a minute exploration of the effects of human depravity. I prefer British English spelling, but not for words with a “z” sound in them, because the letter “z” really ought to be given more work.) We apply the word “cozy” to tales of murder, greed, conspiracy and deceit. I’ll admit that “cozy” is a slippery term to pin down. That’s not how I’d been thinking about them. When the fifth of Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie novels, Big Sky, appeared in 2019, some nine years after the fourth, I was puzzled to find one reviewer (I didn’t think to keep the reference) describing the books as a series of “cozy” mysteries. Kate Atkinson, the Jackson Brodie series Some jolly murder mysteries - but that’s just the start ![]() Kate Atkinson, the Jackson Brodie series Talk about booksĪ fortnightly newsletter by Art Kavanagh about things I’ve read ![]()
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