When Will There Be Good News was recommended to me by my mother in law. I immediately downloaded it to my Kindle without even reading the summary, based on her enthusiasim alone. I then saw that Stephen King recommended this book in his “Best Books of 2008” article he wrote for EW. I took that as a sign and read this book as soon as I could. It was excellent! I suppose at the heart of it, it is a mystery, but what I liked most is that even through all of the darkness that prevaled through most of the novel, there was a fierce hope and determination not to let that darkness win. This is the first novel by Atkinson that I have read, but I downloaded a second to the Kindle just yesterday. I haven’t started it yet, but plan to soon. I am curious of they are all as good as this one.