ILLEGAL USE OF NARCOTIC DRUGS, PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, AND THEIR ANALOGUES DAMAGES HEALTH; THEIR ILLEGAL CIRCULATION IS PROHIBITED AND ENTAILS LIABILITY ESTABLISHED BY LAW. Kate Atkinson entered the top tier of contemporary literature with her very first attempt: her debut novel "Behind the Scenes at the Museum" won the prestigious Whitbread Prize, beating Salman Rushdie's "The Moor's Last Sigh", and the series of novels about private detective Jackson Brodie, beloved by Russian readers as well ("Case Histories", "One Good Turn", "When Will There Be Good News?", "Just After Dawn, Alone with the Dog", "Started Early, Took My Dog"), was called by Stephen King "the main detective project of the decade." The total circulation of the series exceeded three million copies, and based on the first books the BBC produced the series "Case Histories" starring Jason Isaacs. After all the adventures in Cambridge and Edinburgh, Brodie returns to his native Yorkshire. The retired private detective, seemingly withdrawn for rest, tries to track down the fake wife who cleaned out his bank account and unwittingly responds to a sudden letter from New Zealand: "I was adopted, and I would like to ask: could you find out something about my biological parents?" But saying it is easier than doing it: parents of Nadine McMaster are in no archives, nor is the fact of adoption. "The story of a lost and found child is oddly reflected and refracted in the stories of other lost children and — unexpectedly — in the story of a dog" (Galina Yuzefovich, "Itogi"). Two retired policemen conduct separate investigations in the same space, not intersecting for a time, each with their own past, their own trail of historical and cultural realities. "When the main detective intrigue intervenes in this existential confusion, the reader experiences true delight at how skillfully Atkinson turns a whimsical dance of coincidences into a strict detective solitaire" (Time Out).