The Cuckoos Calling (A Cormoran Strike Novel) by Robert Galbraith

The Cuckoos Calling (A Cormoran Strike Novel) by Robert Galbraith

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Author: J.K. Rowling, J.K. Rowling Language: English
Publication Year: 2013 Layout: Hardcover
ISBN:

9780316206846

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Synopsis
A ultimate debut mystery in a classic vein. After an damage in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a non-public investigator. But then opportunity walks during the door–and he must always investigate a supermodel’s suicide. A ultimate debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective C.M. Strike investigates a supermodel’s suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a non-public investigator. Strike is down to 1 client, and creditors are calling. He has furthermore simply damaged up alongside with his prolonged-time girlfriend and is living in his place of industrial. Then John Landry walks through his door with an improbable listing. His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her mates as the Cuckoo, fell, famously, to her loss of life about a months earlier. The police dominated it a suicide, nevertheless John refuses to enjoy that. The case plunges Strike into the enviornment of multimillionaire beauties, rockstar boyfriends, desperate designers, and each selection of enjoyment, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man. You might perhaps perchance presumably agree with detective novels, nevertheless you possess never met one rather like Strike. You might perhaps perchance presumably agree with the enviornment of the prosperous and neatly-known, nevertheless you possess never viewed it investigated by a detective like this one. A ultimate 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 non-public investigator. Strike is down to 1 client, and creditors are calling. He has furthermore simply damaged up alongside with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his place of industrial. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an improbable listing: His sister, thelegendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her mates as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her loss of life about a months earlier. The police dominated it a suicide, nevertheless John refuses to enjoy that. The case plunges Strike into the enviornment of multimillionaire beauties, rock-important particular person boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to each selection of enjoyment, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man. You might perhaps perchance presumably agree with detectives, nevertheless you possess never met one rather like Strike. You might perhaps perchance presumably agree with about the prosperous and neatly-known, nevertheless you possess never viewed them below an investigation like this. Introducing Cormoran Strike, right here is the acclaimed first crime unique by J.K. Rowling, writing below the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a non-public investigator. Strike is down to 1 client, and creditors are calling. He has furthermore simply damaged up alongside with his prolonged-time girlfriend and is living in his place of industrial. Then John Landry walks through his door with an improbable listing. His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her mates as the Cuckoo, fell, famously, to her loss of life about a months earlier. The police dominated it a suicide, nevertheless John refuses to enjoy that. The case plunges Strike into the enviornment of multimillionaire beauties, rockstar boyfriends, desperate designers, and each selection of enjoyment, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man. You might perhaps perchance presumably agree with detective novels, nevertheless you possess never met one rather like Strike. You might perhaps perchance presumably agree with the enviornment of the prosperous and neatly-known, nevertheless you possess never viewed it investigated by a detective like this one.

Product Identifiers
ISBN-10 0316206849
ISBN-13 9780316206846
eBay Product ID (ePID) 150525945

Key Particulars
Author J. K. Rowling, Robert Galbraith
Amount Of Pages 464 pages
Sequence A Cormoran Strike Novel
Layout Hardcover
Publication Date 2013-04-30
Language English
Publisher Runt Brown & Company
Publication Year 2013

Additional Particulars
Sequence Quantity Amount 1
Copyright Date 2013

Dimensions
Weight 26.9 Oz19459034]
Height 2.1 In.
Width 6.3 In.
Size 9.5 In.

Target Target audience
Community Alternate

Classification Manner
LCCN 2013-933193
LC Classification Amount PR6068.O93C83 2013
Dewey Decimal 823/.914
Dewey Edition 23

Opinions
“A remarkably assured debut. Robert Galbraith’s portrayal of important particular person-obsessed fashionable London is accurate away beautifully written and totally lively, his characters so accurate which you’ll eat dinner with them, his ever-coiling location assured to withhold you up past your bedtime. I could perhaps perhaps perchance no longer place it down. “ “An extravagant, alien, charming world for its characters to uncover…broad pleasures.” “Combines a posh and compelling sleuth and an equally neatly-formed and unlikely assistant with a baffling crime…A stellar debut.” “Cormoran Strike is an improbable advent and I will no longer no longer sleep for his subsequent time out. Strike is so straight away compelling that or no longer it’s laborious to enjoy right here is a debut unique. I am hoping there are lots extra Cormoran Strike adventures to reach. A beautifully written debut unique introducing one in every of the most spicy and compelling detectives I’ve stumble upon in years.” “I could perhaps perhaps perchance no longer stop myself from totally playing The Cuckoo’s Calling… The book’s accurate magic is in Rowling’s distinctive descriptive prose.” “Straight involving, featuring a detective facing crumbling conditions with unravel in its save aside of clichd self-destruction and a cute sidekick with contagious enthusiasm for detection. Strike bears small resemblance to Jackson Brodie, nevertheless Kate Atkinson’s followers will relish his reliance on deduction and statement alongside with Galbraith’s expert storytelling.” “It’s actually, actually factual – beautifully written with an unbelievable location … It’s an unbelievable learn, lively, fashioned and funny … Please, please give us extra of Robert Galbraith and Cormoran Strike. I will no longer no longer sleep for the following” “One among the books of the twelve months.” “A selection of twists…Totally lively…Galbraith’s rating on up to the moment important particular person obsession makes for a big seaside learn.” “Robert Galbraith has written a highly exciting book… Even higher, he has introduced an appealing protagonist in Strike, who’s certain to be the important particular person of many sequels to reach…. its memoir strikes forward with propulsive suspense. Extra vital, Strike and his now-permanent assistant, Robin (taking half in Nora to his Cleave, Salander to his Blomkvist), possess become a gaggle – a gaggle whose further adventures the reader can’t lend a hand eagerly expecting.” “Robert Galbraith’s debut is as hardbitten and laborious-using as its battered hero. CUCKOO’S CALLING scales the glittering heights of society even as it plumbs the murky depths of the human coronary heart. A riveting learn from an author to spy.” “Rowling switches genres seamlessly…a gritty, involving narrative.” “THE CUCKOO’S CALLING rings a bell in my memory why I fell in cherish with crime fiction in the first living.” “The interior most examine unique is rarely any longer dreary. It used to be merely attempting ahead to Robert Galbraith to give it a firm squeeze, goosing it befriend to courageous, new existence. Hardboiled crime followers are going to pass cuckoo for this one. I have not had this exceptional with a detective unique in years.” “[Rowling’s] literary reward is on say in this work. Shecrafts an exciting listing [and] comes up with an ending that I’lladmit I used to be greatly surprised by. . . . A relaxing learn, with a major persona youcan care about and one you’ll must always peep again in totally different adventures.” “a formidable and moving learn … It’s a lively narrative living in bustling London, and the author – whether or no longer called Galbraith or Rowling – presentations improbable flair as a mystery author”

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