The Cuckoo's Calling (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780316330169)

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.

Author: Robert Galbraith
ISBN-10: 0316330167
ISBN-13: 9780316330169
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Language: English
Published: 10/08/2013
Pages: 768
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.33lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 2.20d
Large Print

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


Review Citation(s):
People Weekly 11/18/2013 pg. 53