Masterpiece Mystery! adds Kate Atkinson's Case Histories

The NYT reported today that Masterpiece Mystery! has finalized a deal to add a late addition to its schedule for three weeks starting Oct. 16. “Case Histories,” based on the book by Kate Atkinson, will feature Jackson Brodie, played by Jason Isaacs!

WooHoo!!!

Hat Tip: Nora McFarland

Atkinson's Brodie to be adapted for BBC

What fabulous news!

According to TheBookseller.com, Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie will be adapted for the BBC. I hope that translates to PBS in the U.S. It will be shown in early 2011 on BBC One.

“Case Histories” will be a six-part series adapted from the mystery novels Case Histories, One Good Turn and When Will There Be Good News? Private detective Brodie will be played by Jason Isaacs, (was Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies).

The production company is Ruby Films, which also adapted "Small Island" and "The Other Boleyn Girl. The series will be filmed in Edinburgh.

Atkinson’s new Brodie novel Started Early, Took my Dog, published by Doubleday, will be out on August 19 alongside new-look reissues of her other Brodie titles.

Review of When Will there Be Good News?

Kate Atkinson: Started Early, Took My Dog

The Book Case reports that Kate Atkinson's fourth Jackson Brodie novel, Started Early, Took My Dog, will be out on August 19. It's unclear if this is a U.K. or U.S. publication--or both. Amazon.co.uk lists a paperback version coming from U.K. publisher Transworld.

Doesn't matter to me. I look forward to this novel. Love her books.

Previous reviews on Mystery Fanfare: When Will There Be Good News?

Kate Atkinson, reluctant author

Kate Atkinson tells Hay Festival she'd rather not be a published author.

Her reclusive streak was revealed on stage this morning at the Guardian Hay festival, where she confessed her ideal situation would be "to have enough money … [to] write and not be published". She doesn't, she told Guardian Review editor Lisa Allardice, like reviews or critics. "It's a very uncomfortable thing for a writer, we're very tender," she said.
Read entire article in the Guardian.

When Will There be Good News? Well, Kate Atkinson is in the middle of a fourth novel with former Police Inspector Jackson Brodie. Good news to me.

Good News: Atkinson

When will there be Good News? Now! Mike Ripley of Shots Magazine reports that Kate Atkinson is working on her fourth Jackson Brodie novel--the follow-up to When Will There be Good News? She's planning a fifth crime novel as "an 'homage' to Agatha Christie" with a cast of characters trapped in a country house hotel. I, for one, can't wait.

I meant to post this when I saw it on Mike Ripley's eZine, but a Tip of the Hat to BV Lawson of In Reference to Murder for the reminder. Don't miss In Reference to Murder!

And, FYI: When Will There Be Good News won the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year at the British Book Awards.