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Published under a pseudonym, J. K. Rowling’s brilliant debut mystery introduces Detective Cormoran Strike as he investigates a supermodel’s suicide in “one of the best books of the year” (USA Today), the first novel in the brilliant series that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C.B. 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.

Book 1 of 8 ‏ : ‎ Cormoran Strike
Listening Length ‏ : ‎ 15 hours and 54 minutes
Author ‏ : ‎ Robert Galbraith
Narrator ‏ : ‎ Robert Glenister
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 30, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mulholland Books
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00CTQ2ZS8
Version ‏ : ‎ Unabridged
Program Type ‏ : ‎ Audiobook
Best Sellers Rank: #3,809 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #31 in Private Investigator Mysteries (Books) #34 in Private Investigator Mysteries (Audible Books & Originals) #246 in Crime Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)
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