The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)

by Robert Galbraith

Bombarded with the story, you grew interested against your will, and before you knew it, you were so well informed, so opinionated about the facts of the case, you would have been unfit to sit on a jury.

Suicides, in his experience, were perfectly capable of feigning an interest in a future they had no intention of inhabiting.

This was the hour when he found London most lovable; the working day over, her pub windows were warm and jewel-like, her streets thrummed with life, and the indefatigable permanence of her aged buildings, softened by the street lights, became strangely reassuring. We