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Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)

Robert Galbraith,

J.K. Rowling (Pseudonym)

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Sep 15, 2020 Wealhtheow marked it as won-t-read

I am uninterested in reading anything by a vocally transphobic author.

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Oct 22, 2020 Jessica rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mysteries, library

Big enough to use as a murder weapon, although rather unwieldy, this one gives us a real puzzler of a mystery as Strike and Robin are offered their first cold case: the disappearance or murder of Margo Bamborough forty year previous. Her daughter wants closure, and to know if her mother was yet another victim of the man called the Essex Butcher, a serial killer caught just months after her mother's disappearance.

But on top of that, there's several puzzling smaller cases that the agency is takin ...more

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Nov 30, 2020 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was ok

Shelves: mystery, audio, r2020-in-2020

The idea of Cormoran Strike investigating a cold case feels new and fresh and different. But, sadly, there is nothing "new and fresh and different" to be found in this insanely bloated tome. As usual, I did not guess who the killer was, so I guess this was a good mystery, but I was so irritated by the time I finished, that I can't say I enjoyed it.

The plot hinged, ironically or not, on the idea of preconceived biases, and how they can prevent us from seeing the truth.

There is so much chaff in t ...more

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Sep 27, 2020 junia rated it liked it

2.5. Just trying to finish.

Iderkno.

I wonder if it's just loyalty to jk rowling. But idk why..

Okay okay it's always interesting.

But mystery novels that aren't like Sherlock Holmes caliber make me impatient.

Like this should've been shorter.

But I like Robin Ellicott. ...more

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Oct 25, 2020 Heron added it

I read this book for work. I did not purchase it, borrowing it instead from a friend.

You see, I study anti-trans feminists, of which Rowling is one.

This is a perfectly readable piece of twenty-first century horror-mystery obscured entirely by its author's transphobia. Transphobia, which like so many other bitter, creeping bigotries, seeps its way into its author's work even without malicious intent. And in this case one could hardly see a lack of intent.

Buffalo-Bill-Lite in 2020? Groundbreaki ...more

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Apr 11, 2021 Mallori rated it liked it

Shelves: mystery, non-fiction

I didn't like this one as much as the others.

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There was two crimes and I think because there were two of them neither of them really stood out especially the older crime it just felt bleh for some reason I can't explain it. Like I didn't care about it because i wasn't invested in it because it was made to feel like it was already solved in the first place when it really wasn't and that could have been a interesting case to dive into on its own. ...more

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