The cuckoo's calling

449 pages

English language

Published April 5, 2013 by Sphere.

ISBN:
978-1-4087-0399-1
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OCLC Number:
821699240

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3 stars (3 reviews)

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. 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.

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reviewed The cuckoo's calling by Robert Galbraith (Cormoran Strike -- 1)

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4 stars

This was a pretty solid detective story. Nothing too extraordinary or fancy about it, yet it still worked. The author has created a flawed, yet credible detective that helps drive the narrative along, both with his personal story and with his investigation. Cormoran Strike is no Sherlock Holmes, but he's a cool and interesting detective in his own right and really helps drive the story. I'm certain we'll see more Cormoran Strike novels in the future.
It's no Harry Potter, but Rowling has shown she has what it takes to tell compelling stories even without the childhood wonder of magic.

For my full review: strakul.blogspot.com/2013/10/book-review-cuckoos-calling-by-robert.html

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Subjects

  • Private investigators
  • Murder
  • Investigation
  • Afghan War (2001- ) fast (OCoLC)fst01695175
  • Veterans
  • History
  • Afghan War, 2001-
  • Fiction

Places

  • England
  • London
  • London (England)