Caroline seems weird at first and you don’t tie into who she is until almost the end. He can’t let go of finding out who the man was that killed her. Theo feels badly that he doesn’t love his remaining daughter as much as the one that is lost to him. Too bad Jackson finds her not attractive and finds himself thinking about Julia. Ameila Land is obsessed with her sister’s sexuality (Julia) and finds herself attracted to Jackson.

I don’t know if I have much to say besides Jackson apparently wants to do good things, but seems to be a terrible private investigator. Jackson has a demanding client (who never pays) that wants him looking into her disappearing cats, Theo who wants to find the man who murdered his daughter, and then the older Land sisters who find a clue about what may have happened to their sister who want Jackson to investigate.Ītkinson follows what I would consider the primary characters in third person POV Jackson, Amelia Land, Theo, and a woman named Caroline. He wants his life back the way it used to be, but doesn’t see that happening. He barely seems to make any money though and mostly sits around feeling angry that his ex-wife left him for another man. A retired police officer, Jackson is now a private investigator. Case 3 has a wife who in a fit of fury takes an ax to her husband. However, tragedy occurs and he is left a decade later to mourn her. Case 2 follows a man who loves his daughter Laura to distraction. Case 1 has a family on the brink of disaster it seems (the Lands) the youngest Land, Olivia, is beloved by all and then one day she disappears. “Case Histories” follows three cases that will be important later. Since we kept coming back certain cases and people you just didn’t get for a while what was going on. I also don’t know if I liked the ending that much either. That said, I ended up not liking a good portion of the characters we meet except for Jackson and Theo. Two of the case histories I thought were done very well. I think in the end that one of the story-lines that we get introduced to ends up making no sense and was just used to introduce a character who would become important later.

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