A Cormoran Strike Novel: The Cuckoo's Calling (Series #1) (Hardcover)

from MrsLee

Cormoran Strike is on his last leg. Literally. An injured war veteran, split up with his fiancee, homeless with a failing detective business. A very dysfunctional family. This man has about had it, but he isn't a quitter. When a new temp shows up at his office (he thought he had called the agency...

from GSB68

Really good mystery! I found Cormoran Strike and his new assistant Robin to be fun interesting protagonists and the story moved at a brisk pace. I'll definitely be picking up the sequel.I'm a little worried that it stuck to the hard boiled tropes a little too much and that the motivation of the k...

from kalky

I love a good British mystery, and "The Cuckoo's Calling" was great. In it, Cormoran Strike has left the military after losing part of his leg in Afghanistan. He has set himself up as a private investigator, but business isn't even close to booming, he has creditors to pay, and he and his fiancee...

from DramMan

Excellent crime fiction from (it is now known) J K Rowling. Good characterisation and a plotline that roars along at a great pace, a real page-turner. I read hardly any fiction but this left me wanting more.

from lit_chick

When uber-wealthy supermodel, Lula Landry, plunges to her death from the balcony of her lux apartment, private investigator Strike Cormoran is approached by the model's lawyer-brother John Bristow to investigate. Officially, the police have concluded that Landry's death was suicide, but Bristow i...