Almost without thinking, Waterhouse makes a Faustian bargain with Cross that completely upends her heretofore well-ordered life.īrodie, meanwhile, is searching for the biological parents of a client in New Zealand when he comes to the rescue of a small dog being abused by its owner. It's there that she witnesses Kelly Cross - prostitute, drug addict, thief and no one's idea of a responsible mother - manhandling a small girl. What they found inside still haunts them both more than 30 years later.Īs the novel opens, Arkwright is nearing retirement and Waterhouse has already made the jump, heading security at a shopping mall. In 1975, Constable Tracy Waterhouse and her partner, Ken Arkwright, were called to investigate a disturbing stench emanating from a locked apartment. In "Started Early, Took My Dog," her fourth novel featuring ex-cop, ex-private detective Jackson Brodie, Kate Atkinson follows three plotlines in the present day and one lingering from the dark days of the Yorkshire Ripper's reign of terror in the 1970s.
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