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

by Robert Galbraith

he found her company pleasantly undemanding,

Strike, however, knew Charlotte as intimately as a germ that had lingered in his blood for fifteen years; knew that her only response to pain was to wound the offender as deeply as possible, no matter what the cost to herself. What would happen if he refused her an audience, and kept refusing? It was the only strategy he had never tried, and all he had left.