The Cuckoo's Calling
2013 • 561 pages
Ratings207
Average rating3.8
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Ratings207
Average rating3.8
A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. 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. 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. Introducing Cormoran Strike, this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
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I had a difficult time getting into this book at first because few of the characters were likable. But I stuck with it and wasn't disappointed.
Finally finished this book. While I love the characters (Robin and Strike are a great team), the plot took me forever to get into. I felt like I was constantly forcing myself to read more of the book instead of picking up a different one.
The writing was good, I think the plot was just too slow for my taste. I have the next book and I'll probably read it. I just hope it is easier to read than this one was.
Very Agatha Christie-esque mystery. What you would expect from JK Rowling - someone we know can write - but adult. I was invested in the story and characters, and I didn't think the particulars were blatantly obvious. I would definitely read the next book.
