Cormoran Strike is a pitiful case, left one-legged after a landmine accident in Afghanistan and barely scraping by as a private investigator. He’s down to one client, creditors are calling he’s just broken up with his longtime girlfriend, and he’s living in his office. Oh, and he forgot to cancel the temp service so he’ll have to pay for another week of help.

When all seems lost, the wealthy John Bristow walks in with an amazing story: His adoptive sister,  supermodel Lula Landry, died recently. 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.

This novel is the first in the Cormoran Strike series under JK Rowling’s pseudonym, Robert Galbraith.