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Fiction

Big Sky

Kate Atkinson (Penguin Random House, $38)

“The thing about the past was that, no matter how far you ran or how fast you ran, it was always right behind you, snapping at your heels.” The past, present and future collide in Kate Atkinson’s fifth outing for Jackson Brodie, a retired copper turned private investigator who spends his days gathering evidence on the world’s most boring affairs. But there’s trouble at mill: the tiny Yorkshire town, is harbouring a sex-trafficking ring run by nasty characters who have old secrets and new lies. It’s been a decade since we last saw Brodie, but Atkinson tosses enough breadcrumbs about that you don’t need