She is married to an "iffy" husband, but is reasonably well off, and has a baby who is the most precious being ever. Case Histories' tells the story of Jackson Brodie, a private investigator who tries to find out the truth of some cases.

And in the third story, Michelle Morrison apparently has a mad fit, and kills her husband with an axe.She was 18 and had just began working as an assistant at Theo's law practice for the summer when a mysterious man in a yellow golfing vest came into the building and fatally stabbed her. It seems from the responses to the series that, at the very least, we've driven even more people to discover her effortless (sorry Kate - seemingly effortless) prose.

That one moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy’s humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn.Harry is into theatre set design, has a part time job in the local theatre, and through this we meet the two stars of the local adult show. He gains a client who claims she’s being watched and followed, which Jackson is starting to think is a paranoid delusion, until he follows her and witnesses her children being abducted. Big Sky is the latest and the best of the series: all the Jackson Brodie elements are there, but tightened up into a powerful psychological story about evil past and present. He’s nudging sixty, still single, though with Julia’s voice constantly in his head reminding him of his shortcomings, you’d think they were an old married couple.