The Cuckoo's Calling

The Cuckoo's Calling

2013 • 449 pages

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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 books

Cormoran Strike

Cormoran Strike is a 9-book series with 7 primary works first released in 2013 with contributions by Robert Galbraith.

The Cuckoo's Calling
O Chamado do Cuco
The Silkworm
Career of Evil
Lethal White
Troubled Blood

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Really great. Looking forward to the next one.

August 3, 2013

Robin is a brat
a moody cardboard cutout
just forbidden fruit.

April 26, 2016

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.

August 5, 2014