A gripping, elegant mystery steeped in the atmosphere of London - from the hushed streets of Mayfair to the backstreet pubs of the East End to the bustle of Soho - The Cuckoo's Calling is a remarkable book. Introducing Cormoran Strike, this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case.

Strike is a war veteran - wounded both physically and psychologically - and his life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model's complex world, the darker things get - and the closer he gets to terrible danger . . .

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Will be delivered to my partner in the 12 Days of Christmas Exchange via BWB.

I have chosen that book from your wishlist because I found a cockoo dove
http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Macropygia-amboinensis ;-)

I hope you will like your "dove" themed book.

Happy reading

Thank you very much for the Wishlist book and the awesome Second Day of Christmas gifts!
As well as this book, I have Dove toiletries, bird-themed tissues, notepad and emery board, white chocolate, white tea, a bird-themed calendar of bookmarks and a very appropriate postcard. What a lovely gift, you are very kind.

The first in the Cormoran Strike series, J.K. Rowing's move into crime writing, does not disappoint. Strike is a private detective with a famous father. Having lost a leg, left the military, and then split up with the glamorous Charlotte, he's deep in debt and down on his luck. Robin, his assistant, knows he can't afford to keep her on - and she's just got engaged to boyfriend Matthew who disapproves of Strike. When the brother of supermodel Lula Landry asks Strike to investigate her supposed suicide, Strike wants to turn it down but he finds himself believing she may really have been murdered and soon finds himself embroiled in the model's world of designers, high flying lawyers and those who clutched at her coat-tails trying to get an advantage. Rowling writes as well as ever and this is a real page-turner.

Put into the 'Birds' bookring.

I'm taking out this book from "Birds" bookring. It's time to read something new written by J. K. Rowling. Thank you.

Book will be left at book exchange point at "Grāmatu nams "Valters un Rapa"" Aspazijas bulvāris 24.

Picked it up at the book exchange zone at the Valters&Rapa bookstore in Old Riga. I wanted to read this book by J.K. Rowling's alter ego.