Whoops already distracted – when looking how to spell the incredible J K Rowling’s pseudonym Robert Galbraith I noticed there is a second novel in the series – cue looking on Amazon!
Dare I admit that this novel was actually good?! I hated Casual Vacancy and I think maybe that was down to high expectations as an avid fan of Rowling during my childhood, in fact her novels shaped every aspect of my childhood – I adored Harry Potter and still do.
Whilst The Cuckoo’s Calling was a slow start with a lot of background setting the ending was a crafty twist and leaving my lunch break at work with only 20 pages left to finish was almost a killer.
Comoran Strike is an injured Afghanistan war hero as well as an illegitimate child of a rockstar. Team that with the fact he lost everything and he is worth very little provides the perfect private detective. Dedicated to a fault until his temp Robin steps in. Robin has always wanted to work in the industry and when Luna Landry’s brother Jonathan employs Strike she does her utmost to help get the case solved before her time is up.
Landry was a beautiful model who everyone wanted a piece of but when she tumbled to her death everyone ruled it a suicide – but was it?
Jonathan fights to prove it was murder and from there the novel spirals further and further into darkness of deceit, murder and all out psychotic behaviour.
I think I considered pretty much everyone close to Landry as her murderer yet the twist at the end is brilliant.
Anyway, here’s to the next one!!
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