The Cuckoo's Calling
By: Robert Galbraith
Series: Cormoran Strike 1
Publisher: Sphere
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9781408703991; 9781408704004; 9781408704042
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Private investigators; Murder; Investigation; Afghan War (2001- ) fast (OCoLC)fst01695175; Veterans; History; Afghan War, 2001-; Fiction
Other titles: Cuckoo is calling
First sentence: The buzz in the street was like the humming of flies.
Description: 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.