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, the legendary
supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to
her death a few months earlier. The
police ruled it as 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.
3/5 stars (liked it)
The book starts out with Cormoran Strike just breaking up
with his girlfriend Charlotte. His
private investigator business is not doing well; he owes money and has no place
to live. Also introduced is a woman
named Robin, recently engaged and looking for a job. She becomes Cormoran’s assistant. He being a private person who doesn’t want anyone to know who
that he is the son of a famous Rock legend or the fact that he lost his leg and
Robin who respects his privacy but at the same time knows how to find
information. The case that Strike gets
involves a model named Lulu Landry. Her
brother John Bristow cannot accept that police believe it was a suicide and
wants Cormoran to find out the truth.
Through his investigative skills as well as Robin’s help he finds out
whether or not it was a suicide and what was happening in Lulu’s life those
last few days. This book kept me
guessing until the very end. I will
definitely be reading another book involving Cormoran.
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