The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike)
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, creditors are calling, and after a breakup with his longtime girlfriend, he's living in his office.
Then John Bristow walks through his door with a shocking story: His sister, the legendary 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.
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Community Reviews
3/10/16: Although the beginning of this book was a bit slow to start with and had some unnecessary scenes (as most people have mentioned), by the halfway point, it was much better and actually starting hitting its stride. It would have been better if the line of tension could have been kept the whole way through from start to finish, but I enjoyed this a lot and I actually ended up changing my original rating estimate from a 3.5 to a 4 by the end. It was your typical murder mystery without anything particularly setting it apart from any other murder mystery by any other author, but it was an enjoyable read and I liked following all the clues. I wish that Robin could have featured more prominently because she seems so awesome and smart and determined. I want her to be a proper partner with Strike and not just a secretary, though maybe that's what the books will work towards later on. Regardless, I'm definitely looking forward to the next book in the series.
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