The Cuckoo's Calling

Book Details

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Author(s):

Robert Galbraith

First Pub:

2013

Genre(s):

Crime; Detective Fiction; Mystery; Thriller

First Read:

Unknown

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Chapters:

See 14

Prologue

Three Months Later

Part One

7 chapters

Part Two

11 chapters

Part Three

10 chapters

Part Four

14 chapters

Part Five

2 chapters

Epilogue

Ten Days Later

Internal ID:

13845

Series:

The Silkworm ->

Cormoran Strike*

#1 of 7

Cormoran Strike*

A Crime Mystery series written by J K Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

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1) The Cuckoo's Calling
2) The Silkworm
3) Career of Evil
4) Lethal White
5) Troubled Blood
6) The Ink Black Heart
7) The Running Grave

Copyright:

Dedication:

To the real Deeby
with many thanks

First Sentence:

The buzz on the street was like the humming of flies.

Last Sentence:

None on file

Comments:

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Added: 05-Feb-2024

Last Updated: 09-Feb-2024

Publications

29-Apr-2014

Hachette Audio

Book on CD

Date Issued:

29-Apr-2014

Format:

Book on CD

Cover Price:

$20.00

Length:

15 hrs 53 min (561 pages)

Catalog ID:

DD8030

Cover Link(s):

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

33460

Publisher:

Hachette Audio

ISBN:

1-478-98082-6

ISBN-13:

978-1-478-98082-7

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Robert Glenister - Narration
Will Lee - Cover Design
Shutterstock - Cover Images

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

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Notes and Comments:

Author(s)

Robert Galbraith

Notes:

This is a pseudonym for J K Rowling.

From amazon.com:

Robert Galbraith’s Cormoran Strike series is classic contemporary crime fiction from a master story-teller, rich in plot, characterisation and detail. Galbraith’s debut into crime fiction garnered acclaim amongst critics and crime fans alike. The first three novels The Cuckoo’s Calling (2013), The Silkworm (2014) and Career of Evil (2015) all topped the national and international bestseller lists and have been adapted for television, produced by Brontë Film and Television. The fourth in the series, Lethal White (2018), is out now.

Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym of J.K. Rowling, bestselling author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adults. After Harry Potter, the author chose crime fiction for her next books, a genre she has always loved as a reader. She wanted to write a contemporary whodunit, with a credible back story.

J.K. Rowling’s original intention for writing as Robert Galbraith was for the books to be judged on their own merit, and to establish Galbraith as a well-regarded name in crime in its own right.

Now Robert Galbraith’s true identity is widely known, J.K. Rowling continues to write the crime series under the Galbraith pseudonym to keep the distinction from her other writing and so people will know what to expect from a Cormoran Strike novel.

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