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.
If you haven't heard already, esteemed author J.K. Rowling released a novel under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. As someone who was never a huge fan of Harry Potter, I wasn't super excited about reading this novel, but I new this novel was getting a lot of buzz, so I figured I might as well see what al the buzz was about. From the moment I started, I could not put this book down. This book shows a completely different side of Rowling that I hope everyone experiences because it is thrilling from start to finish. This is the first crime fiction novel I've read and I can't wait to read more. Harry Potter fan or not, this book is worth a read! 100% recommended.
Happy reading!
-NBW
Buy it here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cuckoos-calling-robert-galbraith/1113460421?ean=9780316206846
Update: Today J.K. Rowling announced a sequel! Get excited y'all!
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/18/278994941/book-news-j-k-rowling-s-second-crime-novel-coming-out-in-june?ft=1&f=1008
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