Book Summary
The Cuckoo's Calling is a 2013 crime fiction novel by J. K.
Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert
Galbraith.
A brilliant mystery in a classic vein:
Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's
suicide.
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, and creditors are calling. He has also just
broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his
office.
Then John Bristow walks through his door with
an amazing story: His sister, thelegendary 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.