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The Cuckoo's Calling

by Robert Galbraith

3.8
(32 ratings)
480 pages2014Little, BrownISBN 9780316206853
FictionMystery & DetectivePrivate InvestigatorsCrimeLiterary

About this book

A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide.<br><br>After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.<br><br>Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, thelegendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.<br><br>You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this.<br><br>Introducing Cormoran Strike, this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.<br><br><br>

Publication Details

Publisher
Little, Brown
Published
2014
Pages
480
ISBN
9780316206853
Language
en

About Robert Galbraith

Joanne "Jo" Murray, OBE (née Rowling), better known under the pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was conceived whilst on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies, and been the basis for a popular series of films.

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