The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)

[Caitlin]

A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide.

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, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.

Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, thelegendary 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.

Introducing Cormoran Strike, this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

[Kenzie]

Finally, I have some input! I really need to catch up on the last few books we've picked.

I read this book over the summer and liked it. I'll be honest, I only read it because it was J.K. Rowling. I don't normally read this genre, mostly because I just don't think of it, but I actually quite enjoyed this one. I found it to be a fun and fairly easy read, despite the length. It was somewhat predictable at parts, but not so much so that I was bored. In fact, I found it quite entertaining.

The writing, of course, was great, and I liked the characters. I'd love to hear what everyone thinks as they read. I might have to reread some parts as a refresher. It's been awhile since we've had a good discussion, so let's get a discussion going for this one!

What are your first impressions?

Any guesses as to the killer?

Do you like Cormoran Strike? or not?

[Jan]

I enjoyed the book as well The Cuckoo's Calling, and like Kenzie, I wanted to read it because it was J.K. Rowling's work. I found it a little hard to get into at first but later on, could barely put it down. The ending was a surprise to me. Very enjoyable!