Jackson Brodie's Sad Country Women Playlist

The first online, as far as I can tell. Links are to videos for the specific songs cited in the Kate Atkinson novels, in order of appearance.

Case Histories

Allison Moorer

Trisha Yearwood

Lucinda Williams

Lee Ann Womack

Can't be entirely certain, because with the first two I'm scanning thr pages of books I've already read. But it appears there are no references at all to specific songs in the second Brodie novel One Good Turn. Just one passing reference:

"You like country music," Louise Monroe said doubtfully. "Good hearted women and bad-living men and all that stuff?"

"Well, it's not all like that."

One worries that at bottom Atkinson herself thinks it's all like that; that perhaps this conceit no longer seems interesting enough to her to be worth sustaining.

I'll be reading the third book shortly. If Brodie has decided to drop C&W in favor of chamber music or modern jazz, that could be deal breaker.

When Will There Be Good News?

The Dixie Chicks

And that's it, apparently, a lapse that now seems trivial, in light of how good the book is. Brilliant "improvisational" plotting. The most fun I've had reading a crime novel since the final Stieg Larsson installment.