The Cuckoo's Calling

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), the first novel in the brilliant series that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C.B. Strike. 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.

Author: Robert Galbraith
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Published: 04/30/2013
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780316206846

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.7
Point Value: 24
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 160427 / Cuckoo's Calling

Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner

Review Citation(s):
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

About the Author
Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potterseries and The Casual Vacancy.