The Cuckoo's Calling
Robert Galbraith$29.75
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Published under a pseudonym, J. K. Rowling's brilliant debut mystery introduces Detective Cormoran Strike as he investigates a supermodel's suicide in "one of the best books of the year" (USA Today).
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.
Fast-paced and sharply drawn, this dazzling detective novel inspired Strike, the BBC crime drama series that has captivated millions of viewers worldwide.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Published: 04/30/2013
ISBN: 9780316206846
Pages: 455
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.70d
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/25/2013
Booklist 03/15/2013 pg. 49
Library Journal 04/01/2013 pg. 62
Entertainment Weekly 07/26/2013 pg. 18
People Weekly 07/29/2013 pg. 45
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Entertainment Weekly 08/16/2013 pg. 113
Entertainment Weekly 09/13/2013 pg. 19
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2013 pg. 16
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 160427 / Cuckoo's Calling
Reading Level: 6.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 24
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.
Fast-paced and sharply drawn, this dazzling detective novel inspired Strike, the BBC crime drama series that has captivated millions of viewers worldwide.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Published: 04/30/2013
ISBN: 9780316206846
Pages: 455
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.70d
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/25/2013
Booklist 03/15/2013 pg. 49
Library Journal 04/01/2013 pg. 62
Entertainment Weekly 07/26/2013 pg. 18
People Weekly 07/29/2013 pg. 45
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Entertainment Weekly 08/16/2013 pg. 113
Entertainment Weekly 09/13/2013 pg. 19
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2013 pg. 16
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 160427 / Cuckoo's Calling
Reading Level: 6.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 24