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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, creditors are calling, and after a breakup with his longtime girlfriend, he's living in his office.
Then John Bristow walks through his door with a shocking 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 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.
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7 primary booksCormoran Strike is a 7-book series with 7 primary works first released in 2013 with contributions by 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.