The Cuckoo’s Calling
by Robert Galbraith
4 stars
I adore a good mystery that keeps me guessing and The Cuckoo’s Calling certainly does that. This novel follows Cormoran Strike, a former Royal Military Police Special Investigator turned Private Investigator, who is asked by a heartbroken brother to look into the widely publicized suicide his sister, a international supermodel who fell to her death a few months before. Broke and barely making ends meet Strike takes on seemingly open and shut case and soon embarks on a dark and twisting journey through the lives of the rich and famous.
Author Robert Galbraith is actually a pseudonym for JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series. It is no wonder then that the character development and writing style is classically Rowling. If you are a fan of the movement and mystery of the Harry Potter series you will definitely enjoy Rowling’s Cormoran Strike series.
The Cuckoo’s Calling is the first in the Cormoran Strike series. The fourth in the series, Lethal White, was released in September 2018.
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